Thursday, August 26, 2010

Boiling Frog Syndrome: Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans


As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.
American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents, Joe Reiss, a vice president of marketing at the company told me in an interview. While the biggest buyer of AS&E’s machines over the last seven years has been the Department of Defense operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, Reiss says law enforcement agencies have also deployed the vans to search for vehicle-based bombs in the U.S.

15 comments:

  1. We are the ones needed to operate these devices, as long as some WE's cooperate then resistance is futile, buy if we refuse to cooperate then we have a chance.

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  2. The pervs would be too preoccupied checking for ¨shortest wang of the month¨ Anybody with less than 2¨ gets free beers and their name goes into a barrel for a guest spot on Oprah.

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  3. I hope the mindless dorks who operate these vehicles will pay the ultimate price with their health.

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  4. State of the World Address for 2010:

    What the fuck?

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  5. Wow. This is starting to remind me of V for Vendetta with the trucks driving around Britain spying on their people. That's scary.

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  6. If you have the shortest cock, the full-body scanner might not show and the operator will think you are she-male. LOL.

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  7. Turn it back in their faces and start tracking their movements and seeing what they are up to. Then we may find a lot of the missing children, large cache's of drugs and a lot of other sick shit. Stop letting them do what they want. When their actions have consequences then they stop and think until then they will do they wish. The reason they do this crap is because they know you will not do anything about it. Period. They know you will do nothing about it. Let that sink in. Blog all you want what will that change? About as much as voting. Nothing at all.

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  8. It looks like the market is going to rebound strong today. It's the beginning of a new upswing after a several day sell-off. Sell your PM positions and get in while the getting's good. Unlike the gold shysters, I'm not charging you for this most valuable advice. It's your call, but don't say I didn't tell you so if you miss out.

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  9. Soon the stock market will be at 5000, sell now before it bottoms, if you dont you will lose everything, the propaganda in the media is astounding, nothing short of nazi germany.

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  10. What I suggest in the name of public safety, is if you see one of these trucks, you "disable" it one way or another. If you think for one second the x-rays that come from these trucks are safe, you'll know I'm right, after your cancerous balls fall off.

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  11. We'll all in prison now! MSNBC Lock up extended stay 4 life!! Soon all the Goddamn cops will have them in their cruisers! If they see CONTRABAND in your vehicle which means if they don't like what they see.. That's your azzzzz!!

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  12. What is all this fretting? People will just have to start wearing lead foil underwear. Problem solved.

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  13. More bad news for guys with HPS! Hidden Penis Syndrome. It's a real thing; look it up.

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  14. shrink em and lighten the weight install them on police UAV's is the order. London, did we really gain freedom from GB or is it we like them so much we emulate them.

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  15. We'll just have to disable these ugly vans.One can flat the tires from a distance with a bb gun at minimum;but it would get the point across with targeting the driver.It moves slowly,so it doesnt appear to be a difficult operation.

    I think we have put up with enough.Some can look back at old Bond flicks and see, simply asking to take off a jacket was ridiculous. False flag,but real, operations like 9/11 have placed America in a state of handcuffs and open to whaaaaaatevvvvveeeer they want to do to us-so they think......Preparing more and more each day.

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