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Back when they originally came out, I'm sure you'll recall that the operator was basically looking at a high resolution nude image of the person being scanned.
by 13of40 7y ago
Back when they originally came out, I'm sure you'll recall that the operator was basically looking at a high resolution nude image of the person being scanned. The false positives came when people protested and they changed the display to a pixelated cartoon that shows "suspicious" areas as illuminated squares that need to be patted down by a human.
- djsumdog 7y agoNo, those are two totally different technologies. One was x-ray (and terribly dangerous to use in that way) and the current in millimeter wave (which literally cannot make a nude image. The best it can do is the cartoon outline)
- 13of40 7y agoThis article is possibly where the poster above me read the 54% FP statistic, and its point is not about resolution but that the different wavelength of energy used will show things like sweat as surface, and combined with the automated detection it produces a lot of false positives. https://www.propublica.org/article/sweating-bullets-body-scanners-can-see-perspiration-as-a-potential-weapon https://www.propublica.org/article/sweating-bullets-body-sca...