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Beating the full-body scanner
BOINGBOING's brilliant Cory Doctorow has dug up a paper (published in the Journal of Transportation Security) outlining how easy it would be for terrorists to beat the new backscatter "full-body" imaging scanners that are being installed at major airports worldwide.
Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson, two professors at the University of California, San Francisco, submitted their paper, "An evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics" ( PDF) on October 27, way before the John Tyner/"Don't touch my junk" incident pushed the controversy over airport security rules into the cultural mainstream.
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