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Old 27-01-2017, 03:52   #5
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Re: Airport scanners, Good or Bad?

I was under the impression the UK used Mili wave scanners that were automated thus never showing the operator anything. I.e You pass through and it displays a message saying ok or clear. If you have something it alerts the operator on a template image to what location on the body was flagged. At no point does an operator see an image of a person. With that being said, any image it could produce wouldn't be an x-ray. These things are barely capable of picking up firearms so it's next to impossible that it's diagnosing broken bones or even flagging them. It is only capable of producing outside body scans

I guess the answer is bad then because it should be impossible. Thus the operator made the assumption with his eyes, not the scanner.

Oh and the firearms thing wasn't a joke either. It's quite remarkable that a machine tasked to identify drugs, firearms and whatever else concealed on someone failed to do so on numerous occasions. In this test, the operator was blamed for failing to spot it... In which case, what is the actual purpose of the machine then?
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