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: 2) by jcross on Monday December 08 2014, @03:08PM
There has got to be a fetish community for this. I predict that within the next year at least one of these machines will truly earn the name of "porno scanner" by getting its own website and making a substantial ROI on that investment of $8K.