The controversial nude body scanners, employed by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at U.S. airports, have been further scrutinized by engineer-turned-blogger Jonathan Corbett. Corbett sued the TSA on the grounds that the x-ray machines violate his constitutional rights, and created a viral video on his blog, “TSA Out of Our Pants!” The video demonstrates how the nude body scanners are not only intrusions of our privacy, but are also ineffective. In the video, Corbett demonstrates how the scanning systems inefficiently detect smuggled explosives by sneaking a small metal case through not one, but two, of the TSA’s scanner stations. According to Corbett, the scanners reveal metal objects as black, on white body outlines. The backgrounds of the x-rays are also black, so if a smuggler carries a metal explosive on his/her side, the x-ray of the explosive will blend into the black background. “If you have a metallic object on your side, it will be the same color as the background,” Corbett said. “And therefore completely invisible to both visual (Read More....)
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The NSA has officially confirmed that Pinwale exists, although they are refusing to talk about the latest allegations or about how the database works. Supporting these latest allegations is the whistleblower testimony of a former N.S.A. analyst who claims to have been trained in 2005 for a program in which the NSA routinely intercepted and examined millions of domestic (Read More....) |
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U.S. intelligence agencies are being accused of deliberately spying on the emails of American citizens, including those of former president Bill Clinton. Details are now emerging about a colossal "big brother" database system that scans millions of American email messages. The truth is that if we all knew the level to which our privacy is being violated by the government most of us would be absolutely horrified. The database system is know by the code name Pinwale, and it is utilized by the National Security Agency to intercept and examine massive amounts of email that pass through U.S. telecommunications networks.