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A comment on Researchers Easily Slipped Weapons Past TSA’s X-Ray Body Scanners.

Re:Researchers Easily Slipped Weapons Past TSA’s X-Ray Body ... by josho on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @12:58PM (#8203180)
The article notes the $1 billion spent to deploy the machines, and later states that these machines are no longer in use. What is left unsaid is the cost to deploy the machines that replaced this model–suggesting another billion spent on more security theatre.
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Re:Researchers Easily Slipped Weapons Past TSA’s X-Ray Body ... by kmowery on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @01:03PM (#8203201)
The $1 billion number covers procurement, deployment and usage of both the Rapiscan Secure 1000 backscatter X-ray and L3 ProVision millimeter wave AIT systems.

The Secure 1000s have been removed; the L3 ProVisions are still deployed in airports.

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