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Paul went through a millimeter wave machine that uses a generic outline of a body for all passengers.
Why the millimeter wave machine has been programmed to raise alarm whenever someone's body doesn't match up just right with the database.
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But for now, the agency is committed to the backscatters and millimeter wave machines.
The T.S.A. assures us that neither the X-ray scanners nor the millimeter wave machines pose a health risk.
The "millimeter wave" machines, which are considered less risky because they do not use X-rays, bounce electromagnetic waves off the body to produce a similar image.
To me, the obvious question is: Given that the two types of machines are both deemed effective by the T.S.A., why doesn't the agency just abandon backscatters and use the millimeter wave machines, which don't pose radiation issues?
Of course, the backscatter and millimeter wave machines they're using are apparently barely high-resolution enough to detect a knife, to say nothing of make out individual letters, but it's the thought that counts.
Then, when we question the presence of the millimeter wave machines, it can just say those units are "safer" and that they "protect" your privacy.
L-3 had adopted software for its millimeter-wave machines that addressed the naked body image concerns.
The TSA announced Monday it will phase out the controversial "X-ray" body scanners from O'Hare and four other major airports in favor of millimeter wave Advanced Imaging Technology AITT) machines that render a generic human body outline.
Gizmodo writes, Yet the leaking of these photographs demonstrates the security limitations of not just this particular machine, but millimeter wave and x-ray backscatter body scanners operated by federal employees in our courthouses and by TSA officers in airports across the country.
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