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A government surplus vendor has Rapiscan Backscatter Body scanners listed for sale on ebay. The price - just $8K. Brand new they were $160K. These are the same units that were affectionately dubbed "porno scanners" before the TSA bowed to public pressure and yanked them out of commission. You might remember Rapiscan as the company that hired former Department of Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff as a way to guarantee their place at the trough full of sweet, sweet tax dollars.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 06 2014, @06:29PM
and before you know it the TSA will find some other machines to buy and then later sell at a huge discount making various contractors that offer politicians various favors millions of dollars in taxpayer money. That's just how government works.