Remember when the TSA spent $113K on Rapiscan pornoscanners that turned out not to work? Now they’re selling them off for $8,000.
It turns out that these things are pretty interesting from a research perspective. As Michigan University J Alex Halderman and team discovered, pornoscanners have laughably terrible information security with a wide variety of exploits.
US prisons are now using these things, because subjecting prisoners to an unknown radiation exposure is apparently fair play in the US conception of penal justice.
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