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by internetter 789 days ago
> the PornoScanner™

What part of the airport experience are you talking about here?
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clipsy 789 days ago
Backscatter X-Ray or similar, presumably.
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internetter 789 days ago
Haven’t those been phased out at most major airports? I fly with some frequency and all the TSA agent sees is an illustration of my body shape. Apparently this is using milimetre waves
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dmitrygr 788 days ago
The machine creates a detailed pornographic-detail-grade image [1]. You have no way to know if it is saved. What is displayed on the external screen is not relevant.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Image-generated-by-L3-mi...

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