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Would it be difficult to simply shape the plastic explosive around a part of your body to make it blend? I don't mean to be crass, but for example, what if you
by pmichaud 16y ago
Would it be difficult to simply shape the plastic explosive around a part of your body to make it blend? I don't mean to be crass, but for example, what if you created a penis shaped sheath around your real penis? Wouldn't that just look like a larger penis to the scanner? Breasts would be easier maybe. But what about just fat rolls on the belly of a fat man?
This technology is unworkable in practice.
- Estragon 16y agoAnyway, this is ignoring the obvious hiding place which the backscatter machine can't possibly resolve: the rectum. You could store a huge amount of plastic explosive in there in a form which would be very easy to retrieve (just shape it like a stiff shit.) Can't wait till they plug this hole. (So to speak.)
- gojomo 16y agoThankfully, Al-Qaeda has no familiarity with heroin smuggling 'mules'. Wait, what's that you say? They've got base camps in the world's major heroin-producing region and make money from heroin? Hmm.
- mahmud 16y agoHeroine is not smuggled out of Afghanistan through rectums, no, it goes out in caravan trucks with security detail.
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- tptacek 16y agoChristopher Hitchens wrote an article for Slate a week ago pointing out that a recent (successful) assassination in Saudi was carried out with a body cavity PETN bomb.
- slug 16y agoIf it's I think it is, it was an unsuccessful attempt of assassination of a Saudi prince, with a high rank in the anti-terrorism agency, although he barely escaped. Supposedly the assailant was thoroughly searched and finding nothing suspicious , the security people let him approach the prince. The bomb was detonated by remote control, through a message or call to his cellphone.
- scdlbx 16y agoThe assailant's body did a pretty good job of containing the explosion. The assailant didn't make it, but everyone else relatively okay. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/28/eveningnews/main5347847.shtml http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/28/eveningnews/main53...
- lkoujhghjk 16y agowhy bother when you have 1000s of cleaners, baggage handlers, caterers etc who are allowed onto the plane unsearched and unchecked. Of course they are subject to extensive background checks = are you willing to work for less than minimum wage?
- yummyfajitas 16y agoI don't know about the other job categories, but fast food workers on the wrong side of the security checkpoint do get screened every day before work.
- lkoujhghjk 16y agoThey go through the security checkpoint though - have you ever seen an xray machine and metal detector at the road entrance that all the tankers, food trucks, fedex and baggage arrives through?
- jonhendry 16y agoWhy bother removing it? Given the clueless people usually used for bombings, the guy would probably drop it down the airplane toilet by accident and lose it.