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You can be examined by an x-ray device that can see through your clothes the "back-scatter" device actually exposes you to less radiation than standard scanners, or you can opt out and have a pat down so thorough that, after it's over, the agent doesn't have to ask whether that's a pistol in your pocket or you're just glad to see her.
David Ropeik: The Year of Fear in Review: What Does It Teach Us About Risk Perception? David Ropeik 2010
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You can be examined by an x-ray device that can see through your clothes the "back-scatter" device actually exposes you to less radiation than standard scanners, or you can opt out and have a pat down so thorough that, after it's over, the agent doesn't have to ask whether that's a pistol in your pocket or you're just glad to see her.
David Ropeik: The Year of Fear in Review: What Does It Teach Us About Risk Perception? David Ropeik 2010
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You can be examined by an x-ray device that can see through your clothes the "back-scatter" device actually exposes you to less radiation than standard scanners, or you can opt out and have a pat down so thorough that, after it's over, the agent doesn't have to ask whether that's a pistol in your pocket or you're just glad to see her.
David Ropeik: The Year of Fear in Review: What Does It Teach Us About Risk Perception? David Ropeik 2010
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About half of these machines will be so-called X-ray back-scatter scanners.
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As we all know by now, a local resident, John Tyner, made national news for refusing to submit to TSA's new "privacy-invading, genital-picture-taking, radiation-delivering back-scatter imaging machines," as Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic aptly describes it.
Philip G. Baker: 2010: The End of Privacy Philip G. Baker 2010
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You can be examined by an x-ray device that can see through your clothes the "back-scatter" device actually exposes you to less radiation than standard scanners, or you can opt out and have a pat down so thorough that, after it's over, the agent doesn't have to ask whether that's a pistol in your pocket or you're just glad to see her.
David Ropeik: The Year of Fear in Review: What Does It Teach Us About Risk Perception? David Ropeik 2010
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As we all know by now, a local resident, John Tyner, made national news for refusing to submit to TSA's new "privacy-invading, genital-picture-taking, radiation-delivering back-scatter imaging machines," as Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic aptly describes it.
Philip G. Baker: 2010: The End of Privacy Philip G. Baker 2010
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"USA Today" reports the $100,000 back-scatter (ph) machine uses X-rays to produce photolike computer images of metal, plastic and organic materials hidden under clothing.
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His low altitude had provided excellent cover, masking him in the back-scatter from the surface of the sea.
Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994
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All the expensive back-scatter xray machines are ineffective at detecting these devices.
Schneier on Security schneier 2010
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