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TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« on: January 18, 2013, 02:35:40 PM »
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/tsa-abandons-nude-scanners/?cid=5396664

The scanners will still be in use, but using ATR.  Automated Target Recognition software produces generic outlines of passengers instead of virtual nude images.  TSA is also abandoning its deployment of the backscatter scanners made by Rapiscan, because the company could not meet deadlines to switch to ATR.

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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2013, 03:22:55 PM »
Small step in the right direction. Now for a big step and scrap the stupid things altogether.
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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2013, 03:44:15 PM »
So, will this increase or decrease the number of false positives?

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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2013, 03:46:42 PM »
If you want some insight into the idiocy of the TSA , read a blog called "Taking Sense Away"

I'm on my phone so I don't have a url
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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2013, 04:21:55 PM »
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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2013, 04:35:24 PM »
Quote from: adively on January 18, 2013, 02:35:40 PM
TSA is also abandoning its deployment of the backscatter scanners made by Rapiscan, because the company could not meet deadlines to switch to ATR.

That was a poorly thought out name for a company that makes body scanners. I always read it as "rapey-scan".
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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2013, 07:22:21 PM »
Quote from: Regolith on January 18, 2013, 04:35:24 PM
That was a poorly thought out name for a company that makes body scanners. I always read it as "rapey-scan".

Glad I'm not the only one!
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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2013, 07:38:34 PM »
Quote from: Regolith on January 18, 2013, 04:35:24 PM
That was a poorly thought out name for a company that makes body scanners. I always read it as "rapey-scan".

Better than Proboscan.  :O
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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2013, 09:10:38 PM »
Quote from: never_retreat on January 18, 2013, 07:38:34 PM
Better than Proboscan.  :O

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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2013, 11:43:37 PM »
Quote from: Regolith on January 18, 2013, 04:35:24 PM
That was a poorly thought out name for a company that makes body scanners. I always read it as "rapey-scan".

Same here.
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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2013, 12:46:47 AM »
Looks like Skellator gets a new payday.
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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2013, 09:01:42 AM »
Gee.  Now I can fly again. :D
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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2013, 09:50:01 AM »
Quote from: never_retreat on January 18, 2013, 07:38:34 PM
Better than Proboscan.  :O

So, would a scanner operator be a Probocop?
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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2013, 02:03:22 PM »
Important fact - the MMW machines still take nude pictures. They just don't DISPLAY them for the operator anymore, with the new ATR software.
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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2013, 07:11:26 PM »
Flying out of ATL today, it was the magnetometer, not the mm wave radar.  First time in months.
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Re: TSA pulls plug on Nude-O-Scopes - Sort Of
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2013, 08:38:31 PM »
Quote from: White Horseradish on January 21, 2013, 09:50:01 AM
So, would a scanner operator be a Probocop?
So, like, put this one in your mouth and this one in your butt.  No, wait, this one goes in your mouth and this one goes in your butt.  .........

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