mjah Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 TSA introduces software that uses less-revealing body scanner images Those blurry but revealing airport body scanner images that caused a public uproar last year are being replaced by a gray, cookie-cutter image of the human form. After six months of testing at three airports, including Reagan National, the Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday that the new software would be installed on 241 units at 41 airports that use millimeter wave technology. Software for an equal number of units that use backscatter technology is still being developed, the TSA said. Both work by bouncing X-rays or radio waves off skin or concealed objects. Instead of the original full-body images, the new software being installed on millimeter wave machines shows a silhouette of the person being scanned on a screen about the size of a laptop computer that is attached to the scanning booth. If a passenger is cleared by the scan, the screen flashes green with an “OK.” If suspicious items are detected, they appear as little boxes outlined in red, showing their location on generic front and back silhouettes on the screen. Passengers who trigger an alert, and anyone who refuses to go through the scanners, will receive the rigorous frisking that has drawn sharp objections. It's an improvement, anyway. Now get this software onto the backscatter machines ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Mike Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 It was only a matter of time. If you understand software just a little bit, you know that once the the item is detected, it's easy to crop down to that area of the image and place it over a generic outline. The real stupidity is that it wasn't done in the first place. I would like to **** slap the idiot who approved the original version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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