Turning up the metal detectors?
Nov 21, 2010, 10:54 pm
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Turning up the metal detectors?
This is something I have been thinking about recently and I apologize if it has already been raised as a discussion. Mods adjust as necessary.
A long time ago I remember hearing that the metal detectors can be "set" to be more or less sensitive to the metal that they detect. I don't know if that is true (anyone??). If so, could it be possible for the Administrator of the Trampling of Civil Liberties to say, "OK fine, we'll only grope or direct to the PornBox if the detector alarms" but that ratchet up the sensitivity of the machine so that every button on a pair of jeans sets it off?
A long time ago I remember hearing that the metal detectors can be "set" to be more or less sensitive to the metal that they detect. I don't know if that is true (anyone??). If so, could it be possible for the Administrator of the Trampling of Civil Liberties to say, "OK fine, we'll only grope or direct to the PornBox if the detector alarms" but that ratchet up the sensitivity of the machine so that every button on a pair of jeans sets it off?
Nov 22, 2010, 1:08 am
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You can bet this is what will happen if TSA is forced back into their original plans for the nude imaging machines:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/bu...oad.html?_r=1&
But Robin Kane, the agency’s acting chief technology officer, said that the initial results from pilot tests at some checkpoints at 19 airports in the United States had been so good that the idea of using the machines as the standard checkpoint detectors made sense. Those results included, he said, positive feedback from passengers.
The plan now is that all passengers will “go through the whole-body imager instead of the walk-through metal detector,” he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/bu...oad.html?_r=1&
But Robin Kane, the agency’s acting chief technology officer, said that the initial results from pilot tests at some checkpoints at 19 airports in the United States had been so good that the idea of using the machines as the standard checkpoint detectors made sense. Those results included, he said, positive feedback from passengers.
The plan now is that all passengers will “go through the whole-body imager instead of the walk-through metal detector,” he said.
Feb 8, 2013, 8:38 am
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I noticed today at IND, a clerk was taking readings from the WTMD and logging them on a sheet with a pencil. My guess is any reading the supervisors don't like can ultimately be edited later, or once there's a breach.
Feb 8, 2013, 1:56 pm
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