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TSO: "THEY DON'T TAKE NUDE IMAGES ANYMORE!"
Me: "No, they simply don't DISPLAY the nude images anymore. But as a member of the traveling public, what assurances do I have that the original, raw image (the 'nude' image) isn't being cached or saved on a hard drive somewhere for later scrutiny or, worse, cataloging?"
TSO: "But...um...they don't take...the nudes...they don't..."
(I'm then imagining something like the scene from Star Trek where Kirk uses the logic loop on the NOMAD probe, and it freaks out and explodes in a shower of sparks.)
Tisk, tisk - you're mixing up two episodes.
Nomad destroyed anything that it believed to be "less than perfect", so Kirk tricked it into destroying itself when he revealed to it that it had made a major error, in mistaking Kirk for its original creator. It then intentionally activated a self-destruct, committing suicide because it thought itself to be unforgivably flawed.
However, in "I, Mudd", Kirk and company used logic to confound the thinking of a group of androids who wanted to take over the galaxy. They were unfailingly logical and couldn't comprehend the illogic of a group of emotional humans, so Kirk and his crew simply acted like raving lunatics, which confused most of the androids so badly that they had to shut down. The coup de grace, of course, was then they told the head android, Norman, "Everything that Harry Mudd says is a lie." Then Harry said, "Listen very carefully, Norman: I am LYING."
"You say you are lying, but if everything you say is a lie, then you are telling the truth, but you cannot tell the truth because you always lie... illogical! Illogical! Please explain! You are human; only humans can explain! Illogical!"