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More suggestions that the pornoscanners are a boondoggle

2012-05-10 14:56:07.240047+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Wired Threat Level: Homeland Security Concedes Airport Body Scanner ‘Vulnerabilities’.

In March, meanwhile, a TSA spokeswoman said “These machines are safe” when asked to address a video by Jonathan Corbett, of Miami Beach, who allegedly had discovered a method tobeat the body scanners, which number 600 and are in about 140 U.S. airports.

Uh, yeah. Placebos are safe, too.

Links to Electronic Privacy Information Center: Classified Report Finds Vulnerabilities in Body Scanner Program, and the un classified version of the report itself.

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