Many people have likely seen this image by now, if you are on the interwebs much at all (Try to ignore Janet Napoletano doing an Obama and looking down her nose at someone. Shouldn’t be too hard to look at the x-ray image.):
Nappy-J assures us that these images do not represent an invasion of privacy. We are about to spend a few billion to buy and install these body scanners at, apparently, every place that has ever had an airplane parked at it. That’s a fairly revealing picture all by itself. But look what happens to it in the hands of a geek with a copy of Photoshop:
I don’t know squat about using Photoshop (note to self: check local community college for Photoshop lessons), but according to Gizmodo, this must have taken all of about 20 seconds to do. And of course, the instant they had done it, they launched it off into cyberspace to show their skilz. Of course, this also demonstrates how woefully incompetent Nappy-J and her crowd are when it comes to what can be done with commonly available software.
We are going about airport security all wrong. The recent Christmas day bombing attempt was not a failure of technology, it was human error and all the tech in the world will not prevent that. Jeez, was it Newark airport that got shut down recently because some TSA agent walked away from his post for a minute or two and some dingbat took that as a good time to kiss his girlfriend one more time? Thousands of people were stopped, millions of dollars of cost and delays ensued as the TSA over-reacted. That was human error and it took all of one thoughtless decision on the part of the agent for it to happen.
UPDATE: I was right, it was Newark. Just found this little gem from Reason TV:
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