IP: more on "X-ray specs" airport scanners see you naked

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: gep2@terabites.com
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:58:14 -0600
To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: IP: "X-ray specs" airport scanners see you naked

["red hot bullets" comment about X-rays]

Moot point, since unless I'm very much mistaken, these full-body scanners do
NOT 
use X-rays at all... the confusion comes from the "X-ray specs" term which
is 
ANALOGOUS to the type of image produced.

Such a scanner is in any case a GREAT deal less intrusive than a body cavity
search, which is the alternative for finding concealed objects of
aggression.

I'll also point out in passing that travelling by airplane on ONE
cross-country 
flight exposes the body to as much additional (natural) radiation as living
a 
LIFETIME just outside the security fence of a commercial nuclear power
plant.  
Those who are excessively paranoid about minute and occasional radiation
exposure probably shouldn't fly at all.  :-))

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