[Infowarrior] - Blogger shows how to get ANYTHING through TSA body scanners

[Richard Forno]

How to get ANYTHING through TSA nude body scanners: Blogger exposes loophole in $1billion fleet
By Lee Moran
Last updated at 1:09 PM on 7th March 2012

Controversial nude body scanners used at U.S. airports have come under fire again - after a blogger claimed he could easily smuggle explosives through them onto a plane.

Engineer Jonathan Corbett has published a video where he shows how he took a small metal case through two of the TSA's $1billion fleet in a special side pocket stitched into his shirt.

This is because, he suggests, the scanners blend metallic areas into the dark background - so if an object is not directly placed on the body, it will not show up on the scan.

The metallic box, he claims, would have set off an alarm had he passed through the old detecting system.

His revelation comes just weeks after Europe banned the 'airport strip-searches' over fears the X-ray technology could cause cancer.

MailOnline has decided not to publish the video because it details exactly how to circumvent the safety procedure - but it is freely available to watch online.

Corbett, standing in his living room as he speaks to the camera in the video for his 'TSA Out of Our Pants' blog, acknowledges the technique could be used by terrorists.

But he believes they would already know about the loophole, and took the steps to show 'how much danger the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is putting all us all in'.

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