Tin foil underpants.

Yes but when will they produce a portable version cunning hidden in pair of glasses that's what I want to know?

/coat with the lead lining please.

Any person in a position of authority should have the right to see anyone naked.

After all, "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear".

I, for one, welcome are perving overlords.

Having previously worked at an organization, which will remain nameless, and seen the quality of images produced by the early incarnations of this type of sensor, I can say with ass seriousness that you would have to be some very strange individual to get any kicks out of looking at the images produced.

Maybe it has improved dramatically but you basically see a very blurry, human shape with what I can only describe as contour shading, i.e. yes you can see the general body profile but details of breasts, nipples, etc., no not at all. Suspect objects however show up quite well.

In any case I would rather be scanned by one of these machines, even if it meant people could see my stunningly well formed and perfectly honed six pack and pecs (well only if I have the body suit on;-) ), than be blown up by some nutter who probably has the same dislike for my governments allies as I do.

I want proof, where are the piccies!

I don't want some security monkey seeing how big my c0ck is and then getting all jealous and trashing my laptop by turning up the x-ray machine to 'roast'.

Paris because I would much rather she gave me a quick grope for my hidden weapon.

Just have a line for men, a line for women, and a line for who cares, controlled by respectively men, women, and voyeurs. How different is this from a communal shower in a gym or a beach in France?? We all know pretty much what the other side looks like anyway.

I'll take the X-ray specs icon...

Hmm. Maybe a certain Tory MEP doesn't want anyone to find out that his political career was motivated by overcompensating for his under average underpants contents.

"A national newspaper article I read today states these scanners are X ray based."

So, Daily Mail? Express? Sun? Star? Sport? A national newspaper told me that Posh and Becks' marriage was in trouble, doesn't make it true...

If we accept that they're millimetre wavelenghts, that puts it on the threshold between IR and microwave radiation. Neither of which are particularly harmful. And before you start, microwaves aren't harmful - the ones in your oven are of a particular frequency that excite water molecules. I think it's safe to say they haven't chosen this frequency (about 2.45GHz IIRC)

"Just have a line for men, a line for women, and a line for who cares, controlled by respectively men, women, and voyeurs. How different is this from a communal shower in a gym or a beach in France?? We all know pretty much what the other side looks like anyway."

And one for the kiddies? Ah, this is where it all falls down.

Take naked pics of the kids? Surely this breaks child pron laws? And what does the public think of the idea that children will be forced to be viewed naked whether they or their parents agree or not?

Don't take pics of the kids? So, just use children to conceal anything you want to smuggle through security!

Oh dear!

Yes, the machine reads x-rays, but does not EMIT any. It basically uses ambient x-rays (yes, they do exist) the same way a camera uses the ambient light.

That is why they do not mention the risk.

That being said, I think it is time people got past the 9/11 scare and started to realise this is all a huge joke that is ment to make the gouv waste money when it should concentrate on actual, real problems like health and the economy.

Different technology, but similar results can be seen here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray

Suggest you have some other form of visual stimulation before reaching for the kleenex, I don't think you'd even get halfway up the runway (so to speak) on this alone...

And you sir, demonstrate a fundamental lack of knowledge of the electromagnetic spectrum!

Radio uses electrons with a magnetic component. X-Ray, Gamma-Ray and light are photons with varying energy levels.

Millimetre waves are still radio waves. Nanometre waves are light and beyond.

"Anyone who has studied maths and physics at A level, will understand the issues of photon absorbtion and of probability theory."

I spy with my little eye someone who wasn't paying attention in their physics A level.

X rays have wavelengths of no more than 10 NANOmetres.

What we have here is MILLImetre wave scanning.

So, only six orders of magnitude out.

Paris, because even she understand how important length is...

Once foil lined taser-proof clothing becomes the fashion item to have this will all be a moot point, you'll just end up with an image of the foil lining.

I hope that if these machines become standard el reg will update its line of T-shirts to include metallic slogans that only show up on terrahertz scans :)

If your really posh you'll be able to afford a meta-material coat of terrahertz invisibility, that should really confuse the operators.

Airport (and other) security is just a joke. I don't feel any safer now than I was 10 or 20 years ago (and in fact less so).

Does anyone remember the x-ray things they used to look at your feet with when you bought new shoes when you were a kid (ok, so i'm old).

Paris, the real reason for body searches.

I'm not having some security guy looking at my cock or my wifes tits. Just an outline you say, lets see what this system can do, otherwise get fucked.

Just wear Silver Nanofiber Underwear. Problem Solved.

http://www.spike.com/video/how-can-you-go/3039582

Mine's the Silver Nanofiber one.

>"Radio uses electrons with a magnetic component. X-Ray, Gamma-Ray and light are photons with varying energy levels."

>"Millimetre waves are still radio waves. Nanometre waves are light and beyond."

Holy gibbering pigshit, what universe do YOU come from? In this one the fundamental nature of em radiation does not undergo some phase change as the frequency increases and radio towers do not zap out great lightning-bolt beams of electrons! And are you implying that some of your electrons /don't/ have a magnetic component? How do they spin?