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Originally posted by NagamasaAzai
but I wonder how do the inspectors search their a*se crack.

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they shove their hand up - its done with people who are arrested for drug dealing or possesion.

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Originally posted by NagamasaAzai
30mm into skin, but doesnt mean its 30mm up the crack.

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yer....
i know that - but 30 mm isnt much - when you think obese people, or even an average person. to hide something 30mm within your body really wouldnt be that hard! and the persons crack is just one example of a possible place as that is 30mm deaper than your skin.

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Originally posted by haydn
And then when you set it off mid flight... and your arm explodes... and you fall to the ground in severe pain... and everyone's looking at you unaffected by the small explosion... where does the terrorist activiy come in?

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Anyway, people are talking about bombs being hidden up arses and stuff, but I'm sure this technology would be used as in the example picture, for hidden knives, guns etc. I'm sure it won't be used independently, there'll be other means of determining whether someone is carrying a bomb used alongside this.

Edit: and anyone who thinks that the person behind the screen is even going to blink an eye at the sight of you naked is flattering themselves

Another edit: That guy needs to stop kidding himself. He needs way bigger trousers.

meh Glass guns,
http://www.worth1000.com/entries/123500/123730yFhd.jpg
All they need is glass bullets

And what about health risks? aka xray radiation

If anyones been in a hospital they'll know the Xray department has restrictions on personnel being near direct Xrays.... even if it's a low intensity beam it's still a potential for health risks....

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Originally posted by NagamasaAzai
In my opinion, it is simply watching pornographic pictures during work hours for the screeners, the travellers unwillingly making pornographic pictures, and child pornography for minors travelling. MAJOR privacy issue here peoples.

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You've got issues even thinking that, it's for our own personal safety. Or would you rather people walk around airports carrying guns that will maybe be used against you or your family?

I think its ok.. and its not like there are implementing that security in Mexico

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Originally posted by Adeptus

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In my opinion, it is simply watching pornographic pictures during work hours for the screeners, the travellers unwillingly making pornographic pictures, and child pornography for minors travelling. MAJOR privacy issue here peoples.

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I disagree.

First of all, nudity and porn are two different things.   

Second, I have shocking news for everyone worried about their "privacy":  roughly 50% of humans have a penis, the other 50% have a vagina.  They all look about the same.  If you think yours is special in any way, you are being silly.  If you think the airport screener, who probably has seen a thousand of each on his X-ray machine just that morning, before you walked through it, is even going to give a second thought to yours -- you are being silly.

Obsessive shyness (as well as failure to differentiate between nudity and sexual situations) is a very recent phenomenon and it is not helping make the world a better place.  Get over it.

Other than that, I think these machines are a great idea and far more useful than most of the idiotic airport security measures to date.  The notion that offensive weapons must be made of metal is about 40 years obsolete;  today, we have plastic and ceramic materials to build an excellent assault rifle without using a single metal part.   Metal-free firearms are not mass produced and may be hard to obtain, but an effetive ceramic blade of any size could be easily made in somebody's garage. 

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I disagree with you, If peadophiles get jobs in schools to feed their addiction, what makes you think that any other form of sexual predators won't go for this job for exactly the same reason, as for your remark about "obsessive shyness" people have a right to privacy, it's nothing to do with shyness, it's to do with dignity, and choice. This machine takes both away.

I agree that something more needs to be done about security, but I know that I would certainly be discouraged from travelling if this machine was implemented, It's immoral, embarassing, and invasion of privacy, Even if they have different ones for men and women, this does not make anyone feel any the more comfortable.

If you feel comfortable going through this, then that's your thing, but I really can't see this working. I wouldn't sit quietly and let it go on.

I think i just foudn my dream job
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Wow what an invasion of privacy. I think people will find another way of transportation if this is how its going to be.

i don't see a problem with it, security comes first and i think the images would be private (for the worker only)

I don't really understand the embarassment argument. The person who sees it you most likely will never meet, never talk to, never even look at again after you have gone through the machine. It's not like s/he'd go home at the end of the day and laugh with their family about people who they saw Don't forget, they're looking at hundreds and hundreds of people every day, probably doing nothing more than a glance at the screen for any standing-out items (har har) that look suspicious. If you went up straight after being scanned and had a conversation with them, I very much doubt they would recognise you