[Pauldotcom] Airport Body Scanners

[MV]

Isn't this like teaching a pig to sing?

You irritate the pig and waste time.

Unless you can interface with the scanner and alter the picture/scan in a
significant manner you have only alerted TSA that something about you is
interfering with obtaining a accurate scan and it is time for a cavity
search - unless that is your ultimate goal.

MV

2009/3/5 Arch Angel <arch3angel at gmail.com>

> I was researching some information for a buddy who had questions about
> these body scanners some of the airports are beginning to use, well during
> my intertube travels I noticed that the signal used is a 1mm wavelength.
> Well my buddy got the info he was wanting and some of these tid bits I
> found, as I had been taking good notes for him, and began to converse with
> his buddy Bob who researched the 1mm signal that is put out by these
> scanners and found that the 1mm wavelength actually converts to 299.792458
> GHz which is within the spec for an amature radio operator.
>
> Well Bob began to ponder (out loud I might add) what would happen if a
> person developed a small device that would transmit random white noise on a
> range of say 295 --> 300 Ghz ?
>
> He said that the viewable devices or systems would be directly connected to
> the machine so the devices reading the images would not be affected but what
> about the general image being taken, could it be distorted by this device
> transmitting from somewhere in the area of this scanner?
>
> Could a device small enough even be built to transmit these freqs?
>
> Now I tried my best to explain to Bob that scanners at an airport are by no
> means a place to play games and test his ideas as you fall under some
> interesting laws and these people have the right to do a full body search
> for additional tiny devices in places tiny devices are never ment to go.  He
> agreed not to use his curiousity for evil, and that he was just curious as
> to the result of said interference.  Bob has verbally acknowledged the full
> understanding of a test such as this and the laws involved, agreeing the end
> result is not worth the chance you would take...
>
> However it does raise the question...
>
> What would be the result of such an interference be..................
>
> Arch3Angel
>
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