Details about "undressing" scanners at airports
As you may have heard, at US airports they are going to use scanners that can “look under clothes”.
But what is their feature?
First, bring the news from Security Lab :
Full-size "undressing" scanners for screening passengers under clothing installed in US airports can record, store and even transmit data over the Internet. It is reported by the Electronic Privacy Protection Information Center (EPIC), referring to the specification of the equipment used, published by the US Department of Homeland Security.
The use of such scanners at airports raises many ethical questions and outrage of privacy organizations, as it allows you to see the details of the contour of the human body, including the genitals. However, the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) previously stated that the scanners do not allow storing, printing or transmitting the images, convincing passengers to use this faster inspection method.
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As noted by EPIC, the scans can be saved and sent only in test mode of the equipment. However, it is not entirely clear from the documents who and when can activate such a regime. It is said that access to the test mode is given to the owners of the “security level Z”, which include representatives of the TSA headquarters serving the equipment technician and “superusers”. At the same time, the number of users of full-size scanners with different levels of access can reach 10 thousand people. EPIC fears that if it is possible to save information on the scanner’s hard disk and transfer it over the Internet, three-dimensional images of bare passengers will be in the hands of hackers.
British human rights activists, in turn, argue that the mandatory inspection of air passengers using scanners, which show the whole body of a person, violates the law on child pornography. According to them, the image that gives such a scanner, so graphic that it is essentially a "virtual strip".
Thus, activists of the human rights organization Action for Rights of Children called on the British government to provide for exceptions for children and adolescents under the age of 18, or to delay the implementation of the innovation altogether due to fear that airport personnel could use the images as pornographic images. In addition to violating the rights of children, human rights activists fear for the image of various celebrities who also have to go through a scan.
The Ministry of Transport of Britain confirmed that such a problem exists and is currently being actively discussed.
And now the bun itself:
Take a snapshot from the scanner
Open it in a graphic editor, use just one invert command and get
Wow, doesn’t it? :)
UPD: As it turned out, the roots of the second and third pictures do not grow from here, but, in my opinion, as an example of using this technology fits well.
But what is their feature?
First, bring the news from Security Lab :
Full-size "undressing" scanners for screening passengers under clothing installed in US airports can record, store and even transmit data over the Internet. It is reported by the Electronic Privacy Protection Information Center (EPIC), referring to the specification of the equipment used, published by the US Department of Homeland Security.
The use of such scanners at airports raises many ethical questions and outrage of privacy organizations, as it allows you to see the details of the contour of the human body, including the genitals. However, the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) previously stated that the scanners do not allow storing, printing or transmitting the images, convincing passengers to use this faster inspection method.
')
As noted by EPIC, the scans can be saved and sent only in test mode of the equipment. However, it is not entirely clear from the documents who and when can activate such a regime. It is said that access to the test mode is given to the owners of the “security level Z”, which include representatives of the TSA headquarters serving the equipment technician and “superusers”. At the same time, the number of users of full-size scanners with different levels of access can reach 10 thousand people. EPIC fears that if it is possible to save information on the scanner’s hard disk and transfer it over the Internet, three-dimensional images of bare passengers will be in the hands of hackers.
British human rights activists, in turn, argue that the mandatory inspection of air passengers using scanners, which show the whole body of a person, violates the law on child pornography. According to them, the image that gives such a scanner, so graphic that it is essentially a "virtual strip".
Thus, activists of the human rights organization Action for Rights of Children called on the British government to provide for exceptions for children and adolescents under the age of 18, or to delay the implementation of the innovation altogether due to fear that airport personnel could use the images as pornographic images. In addition to violating the rights of children, human rights activists fear for the image of various celebrities who also have to go through a scan.
The Ministry of Transport of Britain confirmed that such a problem exists and is currently being actively discussed.
And now the bun itself:
Take a snapshot from the scanner
Open it in a graphic editor, use just one invert command and get
Wow, doesn’t it? :)
UPD: As it turned out, the roots of the second and third pictures do not grow from here, but, in my opinion, as an example of using this technology fits well.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/80657/
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