By Is everyone ready to get a full body scan when they fly out of Korea?:
International travelers will have to go through full-body scanners and liquid bomb detectors in airports across the country starting in June, the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs announced yesterday.
The ministry’s move to heighten airport security is meant to deter possible terror threats after a suspected Al Qaeda member’s failed Christmas Day attempt to blow up a plane on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. The measure also comes before November’s scheduled G-20 Summit. Leaders of the world’s major and emerging economic powers will attend the summit chaired by the Korean government.
The liquid detectors can swiftly detect explosives. Gimpo, Gimhae and Jeju international airports already have such detectors. Others will be installed at Incheon International Airport. The full-body scanners will be able to accurately detect nonmetallic substances such as ceramics and powder explosives. Current metal detectors are not sensitive to such devices.
“To minimize concerns by human rights advocates that full-body scanners severely infringe rights to human dignity and privacy, the scanners to be installed in the international airports don’t have functions to save, print out and transfer body images of passengers,” said Jeong Pil-man, a ministry aviation security division official. Jeong added that “Images of passenger’s faces and other crucial parts of the body will be blurred to protect the passenger’s privacy.”
The ministry will also prohibit airport personnel in charge of full-body scanners from bringing cameras, cell phones and other devices with them in body image analytical laboratories, Jeong said. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
As long as the scanners make the lines go through quicker I could care less about these scanners. If people don’t want to get scanned they should then have the option of being patted down.
5:33 am on January 28th, 2010 1
People's biggest problem with these things is that it reveals how fat they are. I say "Amen."
I am tired of two things: fat people on airplanes and seeing fat Americans abroad.
6:54 am on January 28th, 2010 2
You know that despite the precautions pictures of the full body scans of Korean celebrities will end up on the internet…
8:37 am on January 28th, 2010 3
Big deal. They can scan me to death. I don't care, as long as bomb-head Muhammad, Acmed, and their head to toe burka wearing wives on my flight get scanned as well.
Besides, these things look about as sexual as an x-ray or side scanning sonar image of the English Channel. That said, I'm sure someone will start a newsgroup like: alt.sex.fetish.airportscan.nude or something…
8:55 am on January 28th, 2010 4
Pranksters will make doctored scans and claim them to be of celebrities. Several things on that:
1. There will probably be effects filters for most photo editing programs sometime soon to do just that.
2. The agencies claim (at least the U.S. agencies) that they won't retain permanent copies of the scans.
3. People tend to distrust claims made by government agencies and prefer to believe claims on the Internet. Refer to the Mad Cow episode.
4. If they don't actually retain copies of the scans and there is an incident, how can they verify they the scan was done or the machine worked properly?
10:29 am on January 28th, 2010 5
"The ministry’s move to heighten airport security is meant to deter possible terror threats after a suspected Al Qaeda member’s failed Christmas Day attempt to blow up a plane on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit"
Another case of the South Korean government having a knee-jerk reaction or that of a local reporter taking creative license? Either way, doesn't it defeat the purpose if they blur out the privates?
Maybe this is really about eroding our rights and creating a false sense of security.
11:04 am on January 28th, 2010 6
"Maby this is really about eroding our rights and creating a false sense of security."
I'll have to agree with the false sense of security.
11:13 am on January 28th, 2010 7
Correct, the current X-ray machines do not record any information, that is why they pull your suitcase in and out several times to get a better view. Concerns over permanent copies is BS, there is always a possibility of criminal activity and when it arrises Fine and jail the TSA people doing it. In addition, at least the US models blur out the faces, kinda hard to sell that.
11:44 am on January 28th, 2010 8
Some observations…
"The ministry will also prohibit airport personnel in charge of full-body scanners from bringing cameras, cell phones and other devices with them in body image analytical laboratories, Jeong said."
By "analytical laboratories" do they mean distant rooms filled with wall-sized LCD screens and a bunch of PhDs in white coats calculating Fourier transformations of visual artifacts to compare with a database of mathematically modeled contraband… or do they mean the attached booths with a VGA screen and a hefty $11.30/hr lesbian with a GED and 3 days of "intensive" training?
Of the 5 people I saw "randomly" scanned at the LA airport, ALL of them were attractive young women. Hmmm… and they say there is no profiling.
A few guys who looked like a composite of the Shoe Bomber, the Panty Bomber and Osama bin Laden's family breezed right on through security without the Scan, the Swab or the Secondary Inspection. I don't know what that means, exactly.
My wife went through security TWICE. The first time, she got the Scan. The second time, she and her netbook got the Swab.
The reason she went through twice is because the first time… get this… the first guy you meet at the front of the line who's actual job is to confirm that boarding passes match photo identification TO THE LETTER let her through with her passport and MY boarding pass. Hint: we don't have even remotely the same name.
And why did she have my boarding pass? Well, to wait in the security line, you apparently have to show your boarding pass to two inattentive uniformed women who were loudly gossiping in Spanish.
We walked right past them and they never asked us for anything. But, once we were in line, one of them came running up to my wife and asked her to go back to the checkpoint… but they didn't ask me. My wife grabbed my boarding pass from my pocket in her haste and we got separated in the crowd.
You are starting to get the picture of TSA "security" right?
Anyway, after getting the Scan and waiting for me on the other side, she realized the situation, walked back out through security and came to where I was waiting (if lost, we always meet at the last place we saw each other).
We went back through security and, this time, she was randomly selected for the Swab. We walked over to the Swab station.
I stood off to the side and said in the Loud Voice, "Noooo… not the Swaaab! Anything but the Swaaab!"
That got disapproving looks from the 10-or-so taxpayer-supported dead weights milling around looking busy… or less.
I was tempted to push it a bit more but the full-body scanner caught my interest… being that the screen was completely in my view from where I was waiting. There were two cops next to me lounging on an unused luggage inspection table gushing over American Idol… but also intently studying the screen on the full-body scanner.
And, while I waited, only slim and attractive young women went through.
It's better than X-ray specs. You can see nicely through the baggy layers of clothes and get a good idea of important things like hip-to-waist ratio. Plus boobies look nice and firm as the uplifting bra is hidden… much nicer than the dogtits a real stripsearch would probably reveal.
All-in-all, it is a great augmentation to seeing the real girl standing in front of you, arms upraised… as you no longer have to fantasize about what she looks like nude and lying on your bed, arms upraised… you just have to colorize it and add nipples.
Those were my observations.
One more thing…
"Pregnant women, the disabled and infants will be exempt from the full-body screening. "
They do realize that anything which isn't 100% security is probably 0% security? Expect young Islamic men traveling alone with a baby to start showing up to test the system… or, maybe, Islamic ladyboys with a false stomach filled with TATP. The Womb Bomber is one of the few things that can top the Panty Bomber.
Which reminds me… after the shoe bomber caused us all to have to take off our shoes, I always asked security what would happen if there was a panty bomber.
My next comment/prediction… what will happen when there is a Buttplug Bomber.
The Scan, the Swab… the Probe?
From a hefty middle-aged lesbian?
I might wear a turban and fly every week.
7:31 pm on January 28th, 2010 9
I agree with GI Korea, if this will make the line go faster and noone but the inspector will see the image (just think of him as a doctor), why the hell not? The pat down is a good alternative I think. I hate those and would rather have myself scanned a thousand times. Does anybody know whether this will be used in conjunction with the metal detectors? Cuz I also hate having to take off my belt and shoes.. Bah!
8:11 pm on January 28th, 2010 10
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12:53 pm on March 13th, 2010 13
Looks like Korea will be off my list of places to visit. I'm sure all the sheep will enjoy this act of submission and humiliation. Why not place them in front of shopping malls and major tourist attractions too?
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