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Old Jan 17, 2013 | 8:06 pm
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But TSA officials said the agency has canceled its contract with the company because it had failed to deliver software to protect the privacy of passengers....
TSA gave Rapiscan until June 2013 to come up with a software upgrade to prevent the scanner from projecting the naked image.
B.. b.. b.. but... from the very beginning, Blogdad Bob and his friends insisted that it was a "chalky outline", a "fuzzy negative", "safe for a kindergarten", and that the passengers' privacy was absolutely, 100% protected already. "It's not a naked image", they chanted in unison, again and again.





Do you think he was................. lying?

The Rapiscan scanners have also be criticized by privacy advocates and some health officials, who question whether the machines expose passengers to too much radiation.
Oh, well, um, yes, um, there's that too. But I guess now we'll never know.
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