Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:04:00 PST Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101118/02331811916/backscatter-naked-scanners-confused-by-folds-in-clothing.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101118/02331811916/backscatter-naked-scanners-confused-by-folds-in-clothing.shtml backscatter millimeter wave scanners, but the more people look into these devices the worse they look in terms of actually providing security. Glyn Moody points us to a story in Europe, where the same machines are being tested, tests have shown that the machines regularly malfunction and a big problem is that it has trouble comprehending folds in peoples' clothing. Yes, that's right. It might be a bomb... or it might just be your pleated pants. In other words, rather than being an either/or situation, there seems like a half decent chance that you'll both have a naked scan and then get groped, just because you wore something with folded fabric. Updated: to reflect that this is the millimeter wave scanners, not the backscatter ones, though the two are similar overall.

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