TSA will end a $5 million contract with OSI’s Rapiscan unit for the software after Administrator John Pistole concluded the company couldn’t meet a congressional deadline to produce generic passenger images, agency officials said in interviews, reports Bloomberg.
The agency removed 76 of the machines from busier U.S. airports last year. It will now get rid of the remaining 174 Rapiscan machines.
Would it really be that difficult to create software that made images generic? I wonder what kind of feedback the TSA is getting on research into the cancer causing aspects of the machines,
Radiation not only causes cancer, it also accelerates aging. I'm sure they're being removed due to medical reasons, i.e., they're really, really harmful.
ReplyDeleteNow the TSA can focus on what they are good at: molesting people.
ReplyDeleteTravelling with my family and inlaws before Christmas I refused to go through the naked scanner / cancer machine as I always do. The guys apparently didn't want to have to deal with feeling me up so he just told me to go through the regular metal detector.
ReplyDeleteMy mother in law has a metal hip and specifically asked to go through the naked scanner instead of the metal detector as her hip sets off the metal detector! I was dumbfounded to say the least.
The backscatter machines where you hold your hands up inside waving contents(like wallets)pulled from pockets are not only
ReplyDeletedangerous, but they are causing huge delays in getting us cattle
past the TSA goons. Anything not removed from pockets and held up during the scan shows in the pockets, so after scanner exit they have you take all of this out(hand your wallet to the TSA goon, to pilfer), 'inspect it', likely swab your hands for combustible material, and then if lucky you are on your way. Older machines did not cause you to remove non-metallic wallets, currency, papers in pocket, so much faster.
They're still buying naked body scanners from other companies, though. It's just one manufacturer that's being punished. You'll still get the scanners, just made by someone else.
ReplyDeleteThat knock you hear is the 4th Amendment trying to get back in.
ReplyDeleteNo more body scanners, but you'll have to take off all your clothes, 'cause dammit, they just like seein' us naked...
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