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Pornoscan hazards

2010-11-18 19:55:01.960815+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Yep, Peter Rez, physics professor at Arizona State University in Temp, suggests that ex-ray exposure from the backscatter scanners gives you a cancer risk in the same range as the risk of being killed on an airplane by terrorism (Via, via).

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#Comment Re: made: 2010-11-19 16:42:26.008305+00 by: Diane Reese

"Backscatter good for detecting edges and “Protrusions”, not at all good at detecting explosives."