Digital Penetration-NOT porn, repeat NOT porn

[jenky33]

Digital Penetration Invasion of the naked body scanners.

http://www.slate.com/id/2160977?GT1=9231

not sure how comfortable people will be with this technology. i already see the problems that are caused when someone has to remove their shoes at the airport.

[[ecgn] btt]

Why does Total Recall come to mind.

[cavalierlwt]

If I go through one, first I'll get about 24 inches of rubber hose, about 3 inches in diameter. I'll stuff it in my undies right next to the real thing, but I'll roll all 24 inches up like a cinnamon roll. It would be great to see the look on their face.

[KilRoy]

That would be fun if one had the "room" to do that. I don't! Total recall for sure. What if ya got something jammed up your junk? Could it detect that?

[SavageParrot]

Considering I am not a smoking hot chick and I seriously doubt even the most hardened professional would take more than the most cursory (and even then reluctant) look at my man boobs and wedding tackle, I could care less if they bring this in. If they start taking and storing images for later that might be different but just as a scan, if it lessens the chance of getting shanked by some lunatic on the plane, fine by me so long as they remove some of the other checks to compensate. If they intend to do this as well as making you remove your shoes, belt etc. as they do now then that'd be just a waste of time IMO.

Also the rubber trick wouldn't work. You'd need to have something more akin to the natural density of flesh. So Maybe a sausage would be more appropriate

Of course all this is a bit irrelevant. If you are determined enough you'll be able to find something you can use as a weapon on board the plane even if that means ripping the tray off the chair in front of you. I think they need to stop panicing about it though. I'm pretty sure that after 9/11 even the most average group of passengers wouldn't hesitate to beat a would be terrorist to death if all he had was a ceramic box cutter. The time when airplane passengers would blindly cooperate with terrorists in the hope that they would be spared I would think pretty much ended on that day.

Ultimately speaking I don't think you wil ever be able to 100 percent protect against lunatics getting weaponry of sorts onto airplanes. At some point you have to make the judgement about where the line is between reasonable measures and alarmist overkill.

What's really important is that this has untold potential for naked shots of celebs if fittend in the right locations. lets not forget this

[Evan]

I don't see a problem with it at all.

[CreepingCharlie]

Total Recall YAY

Now all thats missing is that we're not on mars yet and spacecraft.

Oh and the screener, Meh, I'm fine with it. Its only gonna be a 2 second walk through.

[Sabres]

If you are determined enough you'll be able to find something you can use as a weapon on board the plane even if that means ripping the tray off the chair in front of you.

That's what is next to go.

[cartboy519]

If I go through one, first I'll get about 24 inches of rubber hose, about 3 inches in diameter. I'll stuff it in my undies right next to the real thing, but I'll roll all 24 inches up like a cinnamon roll. It would be great to see the look on their face.

LMAO! That scan thing is pretty interesting, like parrot said hopefully they use that and eliminate some of the other crap they make us do!

[SavageParrot]

I can't honestly see the difference between a guy holding a ceramic box cutter and a really deternined and well trained soldier holding someone's neck ready to snap anyway.

So long as they can't get into a position to overtake the plane to use it as a flying bomb or carry on an actual bomb then it's really not worth obessing about as much as they do. In any case if all they want to do is kill people there are buses and trains even shopping malls and none of those have scanners checking for this stuff so why the special paranoia for planes?