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Mar 7, 2007, 8:22 am

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eyecue

Join Date: Sep 2004

Location: Colorado

Programs: TSA

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Quote:

Originally Posted by HeHateY

Um, "intent" is not always a valid defense. As for not seeing any "sexual parts of the body", why are the gender of the images shown on the tsa website identified?

http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/screen...ckscatter.shtm

I can see "sexual parts of the body" on the male picture and even on the female; certainly more than I'd be comfortable having shown off in an airport.

DO NOT FORGET that the computer SEES and CAN RECORD the "raw" image:

http://www.freedomisslavery.info/images/backscatter.jpg
http://newkai.com/mt/archives/images...tter-thumb.jpg

Even while DISPLAYING the "filtered" version:

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/2...EIq_ou8Rf3ow--

So how long until your nekkid childrens are up on the YouTube, Citizen??

P.S. Seems to me that the raw image is subject the FOIA. Why Not?

Americans are hung up on sexuality. They are embarrassed and modest and it makes me sick. That is why there is such a stink about the degree of visibility of the human form on these machines. A scan is taken of the body and the computer decides where the edges are and where the sexual parts ought to be and reduces the detail in these areas. As far as the image of the raw data images ending up on Utube, aint gonna happen. Too many safeguards in place, the average TSO cannot get to that level of display information without passwords and other safeguards. AS far as intent is concerned, I never said that it was a defense, it is an element.

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