Timeline for How would an X-ray scanner identify a mirror?
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| Jun 8, 2018 at 11:49 | comment | added | forest | @Fattie Because pervs would totally be interested in something like this /s | |
| Jul 27, 2014 at 0:15 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @JoeBlow At the "shipping container" scale x-ray back-scatter doesn't have the penetration. I believe they use neutron fluorecence in at least some applications. | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 9:33 | comment | added | Fattie | Right - (I guessed you were not in the US from the comment! Any yankee friend would have said something like "those #^%$@#£ things!") You know, I think they do pretty much, indeed did, create a kind of paradise for disturbed paedophiles, etc. Fascinating on the glow. I guess they still use very large ones for trucks/trains? etc. | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 9:28 | comment | added | John Rennie | @JoeBlow: ah, yes. Weren't those the ones that could allegedly photograph you naked? With that sort of scanner the (hypothetical) X-ray mirror would appear to be glowing. | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 9:24 | comment | added | Fattie | Hi JR - just to be clear for anyone reading, indeed the "TSA" in the usa went crazy for backscatter scanners, for a while there. After a "last straw" public outcry, they were recently removed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray | |
| Jul 21, 2014 at 4:57 | comment | added | John Rennie | @placeholder: in airport luggage scanners? | |
| Jul 21, 2014 at 3:38 | comment | added | placeholder | Unless of course they are back-scatter X-Ray machines. | |
| Jul 20, 2014 at 18:09 | history | answered | John Rennie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
