Voyeur scanner at Heathrow
 

LONDON - A new X-ray machine at London's Heathrow airport, which sees through passengers' clothes, has been attacked by civil liberties campaigners as a †œvoyeur's charterââ‚à ‚¬Ã‚ÂÂ�. The machine uses low-level radiation to see through clothing, producing an anatomically detailed black and white image of the body underneath.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6443356/

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I can't see what the problem is, as some of the comments in the article say,

" as long as i'm safer in the air "

" No images are stored "

So whats the beef :shrug: I know what i'd prefer ;)

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Well, If it is like in the movie Airplane, and there is a line of cute women going to the scanner and there are a load of terrorists and stuff walking through, then we'll know what it is really about..

I wonder if Heathrow security is still under-staffed :scratch: :naughty:

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Some people take this way too seriously.
Its not like a million people are going to see you or they will broadcast your image on television or in the papers.
If it makes flying safer, its a good thing.

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Anyone have any pictures? :LOL: for educational reasons of course! ;)

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Didn't 9/11 prove that? :(


On a lighter note, this remind me of the Arnie film Total Recall. When he went to Mars and got scanned and the spaceport...

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I see a whole new type of 'adult' website starting soon :LOL:

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But this sounds like the fuss there was a few years ago about video cameras that could take infra-red pictures and could "see through" clothing, ie actually a big fuss about nothing.

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Not quite. Back then Stanley knives could be legally carried on board, like they can be carried from the DIY store, to home. I don't think they could have seized the knife even if they wanted to. Civil liberties and illegal stop, search and seizures and all that.

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Oh err, is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me

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I think that I'll put anything I want to sneak past security in my hand baggage - I mean all the employees' eyes will be fixed to the screen with the cute blonde walking through rather than my bag full of chainsaws and plastic explosives!!!

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I think that we will use Heathrow if we fly with my youngest daughter in future. It's quite embarassing when she walks through the detector and the alarm goes off. They then go over her body with the detector wand and everyone knows where her piercings are. :cool: ;)

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Xray scanner versus body or strip search.Know which I'd prefer. :rolleyes:

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Why would any self-respecting terrorist want to try boarding a plane with a knife or a gun??? :confused:

Lets face it, you can do more damage to a person, sticking them with a well sharpened pencil, or a fountain pen, than you can with a 'craft knife'. Anyone who has any training in hand-to-hand combat, knows that a punch is better than a slap. And as the Romans proved, 'the point is more deadly than the edge'. So if you want to stop terrorists, be on the lookout for the bod with lots of pencils or pens in his luggage. ;)

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cant see what the problem is :shrug:

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I think it depends on the person and their self-confidence.

People can guess what I look like naked, as my clothes don't desguise it all that much, but all the same, I think I would be really uncomfortable appearing naked, by scanner or strip-search, even if it was in the course of national security.