Fwd: Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives - Boing Boing

[Owen Densmore]

This is cool: a paper on the effectiveness of backscatter devices.  They can easily be fooled, it turns out.
        http://m.boingboing.net/2010/12/11/pornoscanners-trivia.html 

The article summarizes the result of the peer-reviewed paper, and contains a pointer to the original paper, images and all:
        "In case you were wondering whether pornoscanners are harder on the vast majority of innocent, non-terrorist fliers, or the minuscule minority of terrorists, wonder no more. From Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson's "An evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics," published in the Journal of Transportation Security:" ..

    -- Owen



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[Douglas Roberts-2]

Arrest the editor of BoingBoing IMMEDIATELY on espionage charges for passing this information along to the terrorists.

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--Doug

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

This is cool: a paper on the effectiveness of backscatter devices.  They can easily be fooled, it turns out.
       http://m.boingboing.net/2010/12/11/pornoscanners-trivia.html

The article summarizes the result of the peer-reviewed paper, and contains a pointer to the original paper, images and all:
       "In case you were wondering whether pornoscanners are harder on the vast majority of innocent, non-terrorist fliers, or the minuscule minority of terrorists, wonder no more. From Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson's "An evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics," published in the Journal of Transportation Security:" ..

   -- Owen

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