Whole body see-through scanners at the airport that can be seen through the pants can easily pass through with weapons

ByDARIO LEVI

Introduced mainly in Europe and the United States to check whether weapons are brought in the airport etcBackscatter X-ray inspection apparatusA device known as a whole-body perspective scanner, the problem of privacy has emerged as the pant appears to be full under the pants. A naked group rushes to the airportflash mobAlthough it is being carried out, the result of the survey that weapons can be easily brought in even using this whole-body perspective scanner has been released.

Security Analysis of a Full-Body Scanner
(PDF file)https://radsec.org/secure1000-sec14.pdf

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/got-weapons-nude-body-scanners-easily-defeated/

This was held in San DiegoUSENIX SecurityReport published at the symposium. I used backscatter X-ray techniqueLapis Can SystemsThe whole-body perspective scanner "Secure 1000" is introduced to airports around the world and to prisons and courts in the United States, but researchers at the University of California, San Diego, University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, According to Analysis of a Full-Body Scanner, even if it is not an expert, he confirmed that "if you hide a weapon next to your body you can get through the device."

Researchers carried out several tests that weapons are attached to various parts of the body and they pass through the equipment. As a result, I found that weapons can be brought in the way "fix the pistol with the tape on the outside of the knee", "outside the knee, sew the pistol inside the pants". With this method, the pistol will assimilate with the black background and will not be visible to the checking person.

The pistol is fixed around the knee of the following image, neither of which is known at all.


Also, if you wrap a metallic knife with plastic of a color similar to the backbone, even the surface of the body will not be detected by the scanner.


Regarding the problem of whole-body perspective scanners, in 2012, a man living in Florida has released a movie demonstrating that "I brought metal at two airports but none of them were detected."

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This is a photograph taken with a whole-body perspective scanner. Scanning the front and back of the body is displayed ... ...


You can see clearly that the woman on the left is like a pendant in front of her chest, and the body on the right is hidden like a pistol and a knife.


However, there are no metal objects attached to the side of the female body, surrounded by the green line.


In other words, it will not be detected if the object is sewn on the inner side of the shirt or the side of the body.


I will experiment at once. A man's case is held by a man.


Usually it is a place to put the X-ray through the case with a belt etc ... ...


This time I will pass it in a pocket attached to the side of the body.


Go through the scanner ......


Successfully brought in without being detected by the device at all. Although the inside of the case was empty this time, the problem that weapons and cocaine can be brought in easily became clear.


As a result of the experiment, it was demonstrated that thin material can be brought through Secure 1000 if it is thin material. If you have a metal detector you may be able to detect the detonator, but not all bombs are equipped with metal, there is a possibility to bring in plastic bombs as well.

The Department of Homeland Security's Department of Transportation and TourismIs "These devices are safe"Although I commented on using the movie above, university researchers have purchased one of the above men's challenges from eBay for $ 49,500 (about 5.1 million yen).

In the report, Professor J. Alex Halderman of the University of Michigan commented, "This scanner was tested and it can be said that there was something wrong with the process of government in actual use."

Although the Secure 1000 has already been removed from the airport in the United States of America, there are many airports still in use in the world.