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.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 06 2014, @10:17PM
The pressure to use them probably was very close to zero. Heck, they wouldn't even have been bought if the TSA were allowed to transfer its budget to "security" companies without getting anything in return.