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Naked truth: TSA nude scanner exposed – 'you can sneak anything past them!' (VIDEO)

Published time: March 07, 2012 15:57
Edited time: March 08, 2012 00:15
A male traveler submits to a full body scan before heading to his flight at Pittsburgh International Airport. (Jeff Swensen / Getty Images / AFP)
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A blogger has shown that all the Transport Safety Association’s controversial nude body scanners and much-too-personal pat downs are not effective in the least, as more and more people in the US speak out against the “advanced” security measures.

­Engineer Jonathan Corbett has published a video in which he shows exactly how he took a small metal case through two of the TSA’s billion-dollar armada of scanners in a special side pocket stitched into his shirt.

The reason it is so easy, explains Corbett, is because the scanners blend metallic areas into the dark background. Thus, if an object is not directly placed on the body, it will not show up on the scan. The old detectors would have picked up on the metal, but the TSA’s new and expensive toys, it seems, are woefully inadequate.

In this TSA scan the metal items can clearly be seen as the body appears against a black background (still shot from video)
In this TSA scan the metal items can clearly be seen as the body appears against a black background (still shot from video)
Contrast: Here, the metallic object is not directly placed on the body and so does not show up on the scan as it blends into the background(still shot from video)
Contrast: Here, the metallic object is not directly placed on the body and so does not show up on the scan as it blends into the background(still shot from video)

­“It can’t possibly be that easy to beat the TSA’s billion dollar fleet of nude body scanners, right? The TSA can’t be that stupid, can they? Unfortunately, they can, and they are,” says Corbett, who has filed a lawsuit against the agency’s new security measures.

Corbett goes on to say “While I carried the metal case empty, it could easily have been filled with razor blades, explosives, or one of Charlie Sheen’s infamous 7-gram rocks of cocaine. With a bigger pocket, perhaps sewn on the inside of the shirt, even a firearm could get through.”

The scanners, which started appearing in airports in the fall of 2010, have been criticized for being invasive and potentially causing health problems. Europe has refused to invest in the new scanners due to health concerns. The former chief of security at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport said he could “overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to take down a Boeing 747”.

The blogger added “Now, I’m sure the TSA will accuse me of aiding the terrorists by releasing this video, but it’s beyond belief that the terrorists haven’t already figured this out and are already plotting to use this against us. It’s also beyond belief that the TSA did not already know everything I just told you, and arrogantly decided to disregard our safety. The nude body scanner program is nothing but a giant fraud.

The TSA themselves have yet to comment on the video, which has already gone viral.

Comments (31)

Dan (unregistered) 09.03.2012 05:14

@Christian in TX wrote in #8
These so called suicide bombers (sunnites, saudis etc.) are you're closest allies and friends, just in case you've missed the development the last 10 Years! Btw. does TX stand for Texas, the most stupid place on Earth!? Most stupid place on earth?  Here we learn the difference between the words your and you're. 

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Fred 08.03.2012 14:00

All they would have to do is rotate the person 90 degrees and scan them again...no hardware changes no firmware changes. Too easy.   BIG blunder though.

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fine2opine (unregistered) 08.03.2012 12:31

I am grateful for the courage this young man has displayed by posting this video. He is sure to incurr the wrath of the powermongers.  The US Govt. does not take kindly to being made fools of.  If we all had half the b*lls this guy does, we would be a much more free society, because the govt would never have been allowed to get so far up our a*ses.I salute you and I salute your courage, sir!

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