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TSA Introduces New Branding Initiative
It is designed to induce differences in psychology and behavior among airport customers.
It’s called “millimeter-wave passenger imaging technology,” and it produces a more detailed picture than the metal detectors in use now at airports to screen for weapons and explosives..
Because it produces such a detailed image, however, technology and privacy experts at the American Civil Liberties Union are not satisfied that the new technology meets privacy standards.
In a written statement issued Thursday, Barry Steinhardt of the ACLU said the technology can pick up graphic body images and even medical details like whether a passenger has a colostomy bag.
Steinhardt called the screening an “assault on the essential dignity of passengers that citizens in a free nation should not have to tolerate.”
October 12th, 2007 at 2:29 am
“This is how the scanners work” reveals that this article is partly designed to acquaint you with these systems and guide you in the formation of new opinions and the reformation of old patterns of thought, association and behavior.
You’re supposed to feel thankful because they are giving you a choice of how to be humiliated.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:07 am
I heard about this on TV at least 15 years ago - then everything went quiet.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:55 am
A bit of background [I used to work in a related field]. Millimetre-wave (0.3 - 3mm, 100-1000 GHz) and Terahertz (0.03 - 0.3mm, 1-10 THz) are the last great frontiers in radio, falling neatly between what you can do with electronics and what you can do with chemistry. Possibly some sort of nanotech will fill in the gaps. But this is pretty hi-tech.
I mean, did I mention you can see through walls with this stuff, never mind clothing?
October 12th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
So is there a way to protect your home from it?
October 12th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
That’s where the tinfoil hat comes in ;-D
But seriously… you can’t pick up radio in a metal box, right?
October 12th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
This is the first I heard about it.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/12/05/1165080915144.html
I think I mentioned this here a long time ago. A few years ago I had a dream, parts of which were about the future. The relevant part is how the houses were designed. People did not have privacy rights as we think of them now but plants had the right to grow w/o interference. Better homes were built with high hedges around them. The entrances were very different too. It was like all back doors.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
I’ve had dreams about the future where it was illegal to stop walking in public places and to congregate together. Where do all these dreams come from?
October 12th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
I think some are real (whatever that means), some are propaganda and if we buy into it we make it happen, some I can’t explain and some are ‘real’ places in a different sort of world that teaches to make things we make in this one. These categories make perfect sense to me.
I think me and two other people talked about this in posts a while ago but I can’t remember exactly what I said. I think it was begun by the clip Jocando from a David Lynch movie. I’ve seen that place but a different show was on and I’ve read something written by a woman who was on stage at what I believe to be the same place. She thinks someone really died as a result of what went on at the show.
I wonder if we put on shows the way we do because we dream them first and try to recreate the experience. I’ve been having dreams about arenas lately so maybe I’ll figure out why we build arenas.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
This is such a psyop! I mean WHY do we need to image people’s body surface? Why can’t we look at the densities of metals and explosives vs flesh, and do something with densities and wave behaviors?
All I know is I’m not flying domestically, that’s what all this has achieved to me.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
And that’s the essence of the psyop: either get you to stop flying, or to degrade you into oblivion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Am...ent_to_the_United_States_Constitution
October 13th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Forget body scans. Brain scans are in this Fall.
http://dvisible.com/?p=291
October 14th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Tim, so glad you mentioned the forth Ammendment there, I’ve been thinking about that in relation to this thing all weekend, at least since CNN ran a report on it. The disturbing thing about the CNN special was the people in the airport: “I don’t mind, if it keeps me more secure” mixed with images of nude figures spinning in circles at such a rate that naughty details could not be made out by the CNN viewer. Then an image in my mind of the hand of a dead man angled up to the sky with blood on it at Valley Forge or whatever, with the words of the Forth Ammendment, the fact that people died for those rights to have their letters unread, while these cowards spew the virtues of having pictures to obscene to be directly shown on TV taken of them in public places all in the name of “safety”.
But you’re right about the psyop trying to keep you from flying, though I would say its more likely to be out to humiliate you when you do. But the beauty of all this is it achieves a certain goal, privacy has a certain value associated with it like dollars, but that value is based entirely on belief just like dollars, and when scarcity is eliminated, value decreases. The mass devaluation of privacy as a commodity will operate to create a more open society in the end, and this will result in the weakening of structures based on secrecy…For instance, the blackmailer will have a hard time getting somebody to do something because they have nudie pictures of them that they threaten to release, when EVERYBODY has nudie pictures (for safety reasons of course) of everybody else. After awhile the commodity just becomes devalued.
October 16th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Here’s the new nakedness. More like an X-Ray.
http://www.tsa.gov/approach/tech/mwave.shtm
October 16th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
This thing strikes me as being a step closer to the teleportation device: especially since it will be at the access points for long-distance travel: airports, and there is a physically denuding and deconstructing element to its use.
October 16th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
I hadn’t realized these were in use in the Cook County Courts. I reminds me of going naked before your judge at Judgement Day, being given clothing of righteousness etc.
October 16th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Maybe it will force people to confront their own secrets and lies we tell to shield ourselves from how we really are.
Maybe that’s all that surveillance society is really designed to do: to force us into honesty.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Ok, I have to post these. They’re from an imaginary conversation between the Dalai Lama and Pres. Bush.
October 16th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Did you make these up or find them somewhere?