Now this makes a lot more sense to me, as nobody in the tech business anymore builds a machine without this capability, it’s cheap to add on and besides like I mentioned, someone may just find a use for those scans, medically or otherwise to run audit trails to see who “messed” up.
TSA Eyes Full-Body Scanners – Could It Evolve To Include Looking for “Unhealthy Travelers” Too?
This means too that if someone got curious and turned on the capability, there’s an audit trail for that too, besides the evidence would be right there, locked and I’m sure encrypted too, that’s pretty much standard operating procedure today. Getting authority to do that is yet another issue where someone would really have to work at getting through all the security settings as an employee.
I have also read somewhere along the line too that the scans and x-rays are very low resolution, but those too can be set and beefed up with preferences. Again, nobody is going to spend a ton of money to build a machine today without preferences and settings, when you stop and think about it, that’s where everyone gets frustrated today with getting all their preferences and settings straight, and on the other hand get upset too when they mess up their settings. How do I know that, I assist individuals and help them fix their settings all the time, very common today and why “system restore” is such a popular program.
The article from Wired says there is no way that an employee can alter and change the settings for “test” mode to store and transmit images, which makes sense and it also states they can’t go on a network and have their own IP either. Absence of a network card would solve that easy enough, a piece of hardware. The CNN link stated that TSA specified that the scanners must have the capability to store and transmit images. Again, this makes sense today as I mentioned before, somewhere along the line someone will find use for the images and data, that’s how technology works, you build for expansion. BD
Contrary to public statements made by the Transportation Security Administration, full-body airport scanners do have the ability to store and transmit images, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
The documents, which include technical specifications and vendor contracts, indicate that the TSA requires vendors to provide equipment that can store and send images of screened passengers when in testing mode, according to CNN
Airport Scanners Can Store, Transmit Images | Threat Level | Wired.com
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