Blogger Jonathan Corbett claims to have exposed 'naked airport scanner' loophole How to get anything through TSA Nude Body Scanners "This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA's insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a... [video=youtube;dHc_53Gj-as]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHc_53Gj-as[/video] A BLOGGER claims he has exposed a loophole in the controversial "naked scanners" used at airports in the US and being rolled out in Australia. A video created by engineer Jonathan Corbett that shows how he took a metal object through an airport scanner without being noticed has been viewed more than 300,000 times on YouTube. Mr Corbett says it provides proof that explosives and drugs can easily be smuggled onto planes. He claims the devices – which display black and white images of travellers - are fundamentally flawed because metallic objects blend into the dark background. This means that dark objects will only be noticed if they are placed directly on the body, he claims. “If you have a metallic object on your side, it will be the same colour as the background and therefore completely invisible to both visual and automated inspection,” he said. “It can’t possibly be that easy to beat the TSA’s billion dollar fleet of nude body scanners, right? The TSA can’t be that stupid, can they? Unfortunately, they can, and they are.” For the video Mr Corbett, who is suing the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), sewed a pocket into the side of his shirt and slid a metal case inside. He alleges he never removed the object from his pocket and passed through the scanner not once – but twice – undetected at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. “With a bigger pocket, perhaps sewn on the inside of the shirt, even a firearm could get through,” he said. His actions have not been independently verified and the TSA has not yet commented on the video. A version of the scanners is set to be installed at all of Australia's international airports from July and follows trials at Sydney and Melbourne in August and September last year. They will grant travellers more modesty by showing a generic "stick-figure" image. Read more: http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/...le/story-e6frfq80-1226293253214#ixzz1oaIOOOXQ
I think that's a camera strap of some kind. But serious, this can easily be mitigated by telling the subject to turn 90 degrees and then rescanning. A lot about airport security is in the training of personnel. The reason why Israeli air security is so tight is because of their training for their security employees. Scanners are only one facet of the entire system and it should never be looked upon as the end all of security. Note, for those that missed it, the overall tone and objective of this video is one of privacy rights. He does present many valid points that are worth consideration. However IMHO, none rose to the level that privacy ever supercedes security, period.
