Nude show to prevent terrorism?
Friday, October 31, 2008 2:04
On some airports throughout the globe full body scanners are used in the battle against “terrorism”. These scanners are capable of projecting an image of a passenger’s naked body. Those images reveal not only our intimate body parts but also possible medical details that might be humiliating. That degree of observation presents an assault on our privacy and dignity.
Milimeter Waves
“- Beams of radio frequency energy in the millimeter wave spectrum are projected over the body’s surface at high speed from two antennas simultaneously as they rotate around the body
- The RF energy reflected back from the body or other objects on the body is used to construct a three-dimensional image
- The three-dimensional image of the body, with facial features blurred for privacy, is displayed on a remote monitor for analysis”
Backscatter-X-Ray
This type of scanner measures the radiation which comes back reflected from the target where the traditional x-ray scanners detect the transmission thorugh the target.