{"id":4136,"date":"2013-07-27T16:15:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T16:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2013-07-27T16:21:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T16:21:17","slug":"my-first-millimeter-wave-scanner-experience-was-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2013\/07\/my-first-millimeter-wave-scanner-experience-was-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"My first millimeter wave scanner experience was &#8230; ok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the machine at the security checkpoint this morning, I cringed. I saw passengers in the line ahead of me going in one by one before standing with their arms above their heads, and I immediately thought of the revealing images we all heard about when the technology was discussed a few years ago. <\/p>\n<p>When it came to my turn, I stepped into the booth, assumed the scarecrow position, and went through this process:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scanner-580x414.jpg\" alt=\"scanner\" width=\"580\" height=\"414\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scanner-580x414.jpg 580w, https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scanner-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scanner.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Five seconds later and it was all over. I was ok to proceed. And the experience itself wasn&#8217;t that bad really. Though it was made a lot more comfortable when I got to the other side and saw that the images being seen by airport security staff were a lot less detailed than the pics everyone was hoo-haa-ing about online a while back. <\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the machine I went through was a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Millimeter_wave_scanner\" target=\"_blank\">millimeter wave scanner<\/a>, the second generation of scanners used in US airports. The first rollout of scanners were in fact the full body x-ray machines; the science fiction nightmare contraptions that reveal everything under your clothes to the person behind the screen.<\/p>\n<p>The differences in the detail produced by each of the technologies are instantly apparent:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldscanners-580x326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldscanners-580x326.jpg 580w, https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldscanners-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldscanners.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s hardly surprising that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubergizmo.com\/2012\/10\/tsa-is-ditching-42000000-of-x-ray-body-scanners-after-less-than-3-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">TSA ditched the x-ray machines after just three years<\/a>. Lucky me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the machine at the security checkpoint this morning, I cringed. I saw passengers in the line ahead of me going in one by one before standing with their arms above their heads, and I immediately thought of the revealing images we all heard about when the technology was&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4142,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions\/4142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}