Monday, November 22, 2010

TSA accepts a simple scanner fix

Wa Post:
The researcher, associated with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, said he was rebuffed when he offered the concept to Department of Homeland Security officials four years ago.
The fix would distort the images captured on full-body scanners so they look like reflections in a fun-house mirror, but any potentially dangerous objects would be clearly revealed, said Willard "Bill" Wattenburg, a former nuclear weapons designer at the Livermore lab. The scanners normally produce real-time outlines of the naked human body, and the Transportation Security Administration has been embroiled in controversy since installation of the new scanners began last month
Now I can say with confidence that even Ray LaHood can contact this guy and get this fix in right away. This is not a national emergency, it is a software bug in version 1.0 and Ray LaHood must use his brain and pretend to be a software manager.

Notice this scientist proposes something similar to my proposal. See, I know this stuff.

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