Arrest the editor of BoingBoing IMMEDIATELY on espionage charges for passing this information along to the terrorists.
</sarcasm> --Doug On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > This is cool: a paper on the effectiveness of backscatter devices. They > can easily be fooled, it turns out. > http://m.boingboing.net/2010/12/11/pornoscanners-trivia.html > > The article summarizes the result of the peer-reviewed paper, and contains > a pointer to the original paper, images and all: > "In case you were wondering whether pornoscanners are harder on the > vast majority of innocent, non-terrorist fliers, or the minuscule minority > of terrorists, wonder no more. From Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson's "An > evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image > characteristics," published in the Journal of Transportation Security:" .. > > -- Owen > > > >
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