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Good Riddance to Rapiscan

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UPDATED: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 06:52
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Friday, January 18, 2013 11:28 AM

FREMDFIRMA



Oh the ironies of life - I am calling this one a "win" for PirateNews.
*laughing so hard*

Naked-Image Scanners to Be Removed From U.S. Airports
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-18/naked-image-scanners-to-be-re
moved-from-u-s-airports.html

Quote:

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will remove airport body scanners that privacy advocates likened to strip searches after OSI Systems Inc. (OSIS) couldn’t write software to make passenger images less revealing.

TSA will end a $5 million contract with OSI’s Rapiscan unit for the software after Administrator John Pistole concluded the company couldn’t meet a congressional deadline to produce generic passenger images, agency officials said in interviews.

The agency removed 76 of the machines from busier U.S. airports last year. It will now get rid of the remaining 174 Rapiscan machines, with the company absorbing the cost, said Karen Shelton Waters, the agency’s assistant administrator for acquisitions. The TSA will use 60 machines manufactured by L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (LLL), the agency’s other supplier of body scanners, and will move some scanners to busier airports to reduce waiting times.

“It became clear to TSA they would be unable to meet our timeline,” Waters said. “As a result of that, we terminated the contract for the convenience of the government.”

OSI Systems rose $3.03, or 4.5 percent, to $70.68 at 11:32 a.m. in Nasdaq trading.

The decision to cancel the Rapiscan software contract and remove its scanners wasn’t related to an agency probe of whether the company faked testing data on the software fix, Waters said.


Suuuure it wasn't.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuspiciouslySpecificDenial

For mine own I was as concerned about health and safety issues as the privacy violation, but thankfully that makes this a dead letter unless they try to pawn them off on school systems or something, which I doubt they will, or that it would gain traction if they tried.
I worry about em winding up in a landfill though, since those kind of machines have materials in em requiring more specific methods of disposal.

Anyhows, good freakin riddance.

-Frem

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Friday, January 18, 2013 11:36 AM

CHRISISALL


Poor horny airport workers...

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:52 PM

CANTTAKESKY


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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Poor horny airport workers...



ROFL.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:04 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Poor horny airport workers...



The TSA will use 60 machines manufactured by L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (LLL), the agency’s other supplier of body scanners, and will move some scanners to busier airports to reduce waiting times.

So, some will still get to view live nekked folks on the job, it seems. Just not quite AS nekked as before?

And doesn't this only open the door for more groping of toddlers and grandma by TSA agents ?



"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:19 AM

BYTEMITE


Call me a prude, but, I won't be happy until I hear they're deleting the images.

Plus so long as the images exist they could give them to the FBI to make a profiling database. The FBI LOVES that.

It is a step forward though. Too bad they haven't yet gotten rid of all of them.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:29 AM

JONGSSTRAW


I like the pat downs. When you've been married for 36 years you take what you can get.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:52 AM

CHRISISALL


I'll miss the radiation. Oh well, I can always drink from the Connecticut river for that...

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