Federal detective “ discover vulnerabilities in the screening physical process ” at domestic airports using so - call “ full body electronic scanner , ” according to a classified internal Department of Homeland Security report .
DHS has spent about $ 90 million replace traditional magnetometers withcontroversial X - ray physical structure scanning machinesthat are signify to detect items that could be missed by a metal detector .
Exactly how bad the soundbox scanners are is not being unwrap publicly , but the Inspector General report made eight separate recommendation on how to amend screening .
Meanwhile , anunclassified versionof the Inspector General theme , excavate Friday by theElectronic Information Privacy Center , may give acceptance to a recent YouTube video recording allegedly show a 27 - twelvemonth - old Florida man hook a metal object through two unlike Transportation Security Administration dead body scanners at American aerodrome .
The TSA agreed with all of the Inspector General ’s recommendations . The Inspector General did not now respond to a asking for comment .
In March , meanwhile , a TSA spokeswoman say “ These machines are safe ” when asked to address a video by Jonathan Corbett , of Miami Beach , who allegedly had detect a method acting tobeat the body scanners , which number 600 and are in about 140 U.S. airports . A brief YouTube video allegedly shows Corbett , who had sewn a pouch to the side of his shirt , get past two trunk scanners with a metallic physical object in that sack .
It was not at once known when the TSA published its unclassified summary , TSA Penetration Testing of Advanced Imaging Technology . It comes with a “ November 2011″ date and can be base on the DHS Office of Inspector General website under the heading “ OIG report : Fiscal Year 2012 . ”
It ’s not the first prison term the consistence digital scanner , produced by Rapiscan and L-3 Communications , have come under attack . In athree - part series last year , Wired report that , indeed , there were suspected security fault with them . Even the Government Accountability Office – Congress ’ investigative branch – said the twist might be ineffectual . And the Journal of Transportation Security suggested terrorist might put one over the Rapiscan machines by taping explosive devices to their stomachs .
The unclassified summary say the government has spend $ 87 million on the scanner , which include $ 10 million for “ installment and maintenance . ” To quiet privateness concerns , the sureness are also expend $ 7 million to “ remove the human agent from the image review process ” and put back the passenger ’s picture with an embodiment .
The unclassified version said the “ quantitative and qualitative results of our testing are classified . ”
passenger who refuse to go through the machines are subject to intense forcible patdowns . Many have complained the process include beingsexually groped .
Amie Stepanovich , an EPIC attorney , said the group would lodge a Freedom of Information Act claim in a bid to get access to the full report . “ This involve a program that is authoritative to the public , ” she said in a telephone consultation .
EPIC had sue the government , claiming the machines were an unconstitutional breach of Americans ’ privateness . A Union prayer court sided with the authorities , although the court said the governmentdid not adhere to the lawwhen it began implementing the machines at airports as early as 2007 .
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