1:46:22 I'll have to fast forward a little bit through the opening intro on the economy. So he's talking about how safe these things are. The following podcast is sponsored by Oppenheimer Funds. That's a podcast, we will shuttle fast forward! ...success to work... Shut up! We're very successful for the last 40 years but now that terrorists have apparently chosen to take explosives in underwear and in shoes there needs to be a procedure to prevent that from happening otherwise it will happen again. The Economist All right so now he's going to talk about how safe they are which is just hilarious what he uses as comparison. This is the economist should you be worried about the new full body scanners also known as nude scanners? Nude! That are currently appearing in airports around the world do they increase security but at the cost of privacy, Is airport scanning just a charade to... Oh is this wanton reassure passengers
1:47:13 And what will the checkpoint of the future look like? To find out more, we spoke to Andreas Kertowski Chief Technology Officer of RapiScan one of the world's largest manufacturers of scanning equipment. We started by asking him to tell us what kinds of machines the company makes. RapiScan Systems is one of the biggest scanner manufacturers in the world and we are effectively exclusively dedicated to checkpoint security screening Okay, now the kind of scanner that's in the news a lot at the moment are so-called nude scanners. These are full body scanners that are appearing in some airports particularly in United States and I believe 500 have been ordered from Rapperscanner which about half have already been deployed is that right? Yes, I think thats right And you're not operating them obviously but does this idea they're called nude scanner bother you
1:47:58 Well, I think the name bothers me and the idea is not... It's not our brand dude. We don't want to be known as nude! It's not our brand! Gingerbread maybe but not nude To produce nude pictures the aim is to image threats and weapons Ah, image threats And that's what their purpose is The two main objections that have been raised against them are the privacy objection and the safety objection Perhaps we should start with the privacy one Do you have a sort of policy or best practices That go with using your scanner? Or do you leave it up to the security agency at the airport Well, typically since we deal with government agencies they determine how the scanners are used but in most cases there are numerous privacy features of the machine. One is the fact that these are x-ray images and if you saw an X-Ray image you could not identify that person in a room later unless they were the smallest person. Unless they had huge breasts! Yeah he says the largest or the smallest it just needs to... Breasts or Wang? Person in the room
1:48:55 The second thing is most airports have strict operational safeguards and typically the The image reviewers are in a separate room, they cannot see the passengers. They cannot record the images and typically... Yeah well we know that's a lie. ...to have cell phones or other cameras so they could take images with them Moving on to safety questions So your nude scanner if you'll forgive this expression is I do like this guy Your nude scanner It's a backscatter x-ray there's another sort is now that uses millimeter wave radiation and some people think that's sorted safer because x-rays ionizing radiation so on what your position on the safety of these scanners we think these scanners are demonstrated to be we think by the way yeah they are being we think we say it is what he said yet we think ionizing radiation has been with every living beings since the dawn of time as a matter fact we ourselves are radioactive so slow
1:49:53 He-he-he... Check myself in, buddy! Here comes the don't cuddle up to someone's butt concept. Sleep in the same bed as another human being you actually increase your x-ray exposure. BULLSHIT! Wait there is more it gets better About as much every day as a secure scan You have a chart on your website that shows these various levels of radiation exposure and one of the bars on the chart has a banana next to it what's going on there? A banana Hello John a banana how much radiation is in the banana John? Oh, I don't know probably Probably not more. I think he's thinking bananas probably more radioactive than one of our scanners What do you think John? I think this wanton man should tell us well bananas are fairly radioactive as far as food goes because
1:50:46 things going in the dark what's wrong with my banana contain potassium all potassium has some radioactive components in it so you need potassium to live but it does have ionizing radiation associated so one banana is roughly equivalent to one of these scams? well a quarter for bananas roughly equivalent to one of these. oh right! that's the kicker A quarter of a banana- That's fantastic, that is the clip of the day. A quarter of a banana is equal to one times two on our naked body scanner! That makes sense... If I eat a whole banana I might die of radiation
1:51:27 Fuck me. Sorry didn't mean to do that just slipped out the Tourette's Unbelievable yeah, yeah, it's good huh? Oh yeah, that's a clip of the day I had it last week It just we didn't get to it as its against an evergreen Yeah, oh my goodness. I needed that I needed a real belly laugh These people think they are yeah, let's just The nerve of these guys is pretty outrageous isn't it ah and by the way breaking news you do to do to do to do to do uh... pj crowley spokes all for hillary clinton israel resigned well under why uh... well the um... this thesis is cnn says pressure from white house officials maybe it's over a he said some weird about uh... bradley manning he said