Cool Article: Confession of a Baggage Screener (+little info on future technology)
Sep 14, 2003, 10:35 pm
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Cool Article: Confession of a Baggage Screener (+little info on future technology)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1...scan.html?pg=1
I'm quite happy to see that InVision owns Yxlon (since April '03) and Quantum Magnetics. These machines potentially could be used to resolve bags that are rejected by the CTX / L3 machines. "The units would pinpoint an explosive without false alarms."
Hope the TSA will eventually (say within the next 5 years) use those machines to replace most of the intrusive behind-the-scenes physical inspections. While I don't think there's no such thing as a 0% false alarm machine, a low false alarm rate with these machines would make passenger-attended physical searches feasible and do away with the unlocked baggage policy.
- Pat
I'm quite happy to see that InVision owns Yxlon (since April '03) and Quantum Magnetics. These machines potentially could be used to resolve bags that are rejected by the CTX / L3 machines. "The units would pinpoint an explosive without false alarms."
Hope the TSA will eventually (say within the next 5 years) use those machines to replace most of the intrusive behind-the-scenes physical inspections. While I don't think there's no such thing as a 0% false alarm machine, a low false alarm rate with these machines would make passenger-attended physical searches feasible and do away with the unlocked baggage policy.
- Pat
