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Airport Scanners, Real Images Revealed

by Irma Arkus

The latest frenzy to install airport scanners has, in my humble opinion, gone overboard, and furthermore has given itching authorities carte blanc to installing another trillion dollars worth of security machinery that many experts doubt in terms of legality or safety, and generally making lives of passengers beyond miserable.

The airport scanners are invasive, and though I personally cackle with fond thoughts of Total Recall, they indeed present a serious invasion of anonymity for passengers.

Undertheradarmedia reports that actual images produced by the scanners are not in fact the negatives we’ve been shown. Instead the images appear as simple black and white “scans” of our bodies.

I personally am not a shy daisy, and neither is the woman in the image. But there is a great differentiation between having the right to say no to being examined head to toe and being forced to comply with extreme security measures(or otherwise get Tasered?)

Our sense of anonymity and privacy has already been vanquished to make way for “securitization.” Whether it’s securitization of economic funds, national borders, or just following orders of some vague “intelligence” community, I at least expected the luxury of having my ass covered with a shammy through the process. [Undertheradarmedia


Thu, 01/07/2010 - 17:03 Posted by irma |


so that’s how you hide a


so that’s how you hide a gun in your ass?! thank hiscifi for unveiling yet another mystery. lol

Mon, 01/18/2010 - 12:02 Posted by blarkm (not verified)

Try checking your sources FIRST...?


The very first thing I thought of when I saw this was… ‘Hmm what are the sources for the image?’ but it would appear that you, and hundreds of others like you, have failed miserably to bring the actual FACTS of this non story to your readers, thus increasing the amount of DISinformation that traverses the internet.
I won’t go on, I will just provide you with a link to a story where the author has indeed discovered the error of his ways and has published an edit of his original article, stating the facts about the so called airport scanner image.
http://justgetthere.us/blog/archives/DISINFORMATION-Inverted-Body-Scanne…

Please at least try to spread information that is checked and verified in future or you are about as worthy a news source as the likes of Adam curry or David Icke!

Sun, 01/24/2010 - 15:06 Posted by Fae GiN (not verified)

This is a fake image...


I can prove this image is a FAKE.
The picture of the woman was taken off of a STOCK PHOTO website and was NOT produced by an Airport Scanner.
Here is the stock-photo website: http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/1569R-246002

all they did was photoshop it to make it look like it was made by an airport scanner and imposed the image of a gun over top. Please quit relaying this false information. I have a degree in Art & Design and that’s how I know this image is a fake and can reproduce it in under 5 minutes.

Tue, 01/26/2010 - 23:27 Posted by Nick (not verified)

Why is this still here unchanged?...?


Hello there. I already left you a comment telling you about the other sites like yours that also fell for this (now VERY WELL KNOWN) scam of the hoax scanner images. Yet you have chosen not to change the article or even say anything about it not being true?!
Is this because you would prefer top have the article as it is because then it fits with your agenda and view of the world which is obviously a bit Big Brother etc etc?
I think you only have one choice in this: Come clean or admit you are a blatant liar.
Integrity is a valuable asset.

Wed, 01/27/2010 - 22:39 Posted by Fae GiN (not verified)

no offense but the scans are


no offense but the scans are relatively entertaining.

Additionally, it has been uncovered that many of these scans are adjustable in terms of visual clarity. Some are showing relative BLURS of human physiology, while others show very very clear scans similar to ones above.

so no, your comment is valid, and it shall pertain to the content above, but I’m leaving it as is. I do appreciate though your contribution.

Fri, 02/05/2010 - 16:43 Posted by irma

Violation


Gordon Brown is a traitor to his country.
In Britain if you are asked to go through one of the scanners you must comply. If you refuse you will be barred from flying and your name will be kept on a list. Guilty before you fly. You are not given the opportunity to have a pat down.
The terrorists have scarred the not properly elected Prime Minister (what a joke) in to forcing civilised human beings in to getting there naked bodies photo graphed and looked at in detail by anyone who is TRAINED. Have these perverts been vetted or are they on the sex offenders list. I bet all the Trained individuals are men.
A Doctor is the only other man i would willingly let look at my wife’s naked body for medical reasons not some floor cleaner who applied for a job as pervert. Looking for bombs or staring at naked woman all day. What a job to have. Not having to pay for porn but also getting paid to look at it. I spoke to a friend at an airport and he told me that the images are kept for an hour before they are deleted. Just encase something happens on the plane they can then go back and have another look at the porn. So all this “the images aren’t stored in anyway and are deleted straight away” is complete rubbish!
In order for myself and family to have a nice holiday in the sun I am expected to let my wife expose herself to a complete stranger.
I didn’t marry a slag. Porn stars have a choice to get photo graphed, our wife’s and children don’t. Until these Skandalis machines are destroyed I am stuck in this country for a holiday. To drive to a hot country far away with a young family is unfair on them.
The dignity of our loved ones has been thrown away just because of some mud hut dwellers go boo !!!
Do you think Winston Churchill would have aloud his loved ones to expose there genitals to strangers just so they could go on holiday.
Get some Genitals Brown. Don’t jump on the first band wagon that they say will stop terrorists. This last attack would still of happened even if he had gone through a scanner.
I served in the Army for my family and friends protection. Now my Supposed Leader is making them strip in front of anyone deemed TRAINED.
Disgusting behaviour from a supposed leader of men.
Bend over Britain all is lost.

PS.funny how the shares in these machines are on the up. Some one is making a lot of money out this.

Thu, 04/08/2010 - 05:56 Posted by Derek (not verified)

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