{"id":538,"date":"2005-06-09T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=538"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:29:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:29:20","slug":"backscatter-x-ray-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/09\/backscatter-x-ray-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Backscatter X-Ray Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/backscatter_x-r.html\">this article<\/a> over at Bruce Schneier&#8217;s blog, there&#8217;s a new X-Ray system that can literally &#8220;see&#8221; through clothes (in the way that many of us imagined those old &#8220;x-ray glasses&#8221; advertised on the back of cereal boxes would work). And they&#8217;re planning on using it to scan people.<\/p>\n<p><em>Riiiiiight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s scan the people, not the luggage. <\/p>\n<p>Common sense, people! It&#8217;s not that hard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article over at Bruce Schneier&#8217;s blog, there&#8217;s a new X-Ray system that can literally &#8220;see&#8221; through clothes (in the way that many of us imagined those old &#8220;x-ray glasses&#8221; advertised on the back of cereal boxes would work). And they&#8217;re planning on using it to scan people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-8G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":491,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/15\/more-real-id-stuff\/","url_meta":{"origin":538,"position":0},"title":"More REAL ID Stuff","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 15, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's some select reading. The first 3 articles are from Bruce Schneier's \"Crypto-Gram\" newsletter; the other one is an EPIC article. 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As a programmer, I see it as a death sentence. As a business owner, I see it as a strange (and in my opinion, unjustified) attempt to \"pierce the corporate veil.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"tech","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":904,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/06\/26\/a-victory-for-privacy\/","url_meta":{"origin":538,"position":4},"title":"A Victory for Privacy","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent court decision has granted e-mail the same 4th Amendment protection as your home and your phone calls.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":619,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/09\/08\/a-us-national-firewall\/","url_meta":{"origin":538,"position":5},"title":"A U.S. National Firewall?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, because nationalism is better than a unified, global information network. 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