Exposed

Did you read this article about the new X-Ray technology the TSA is using to help screen for threats to airlines? Apparently these new machines see through the outer layer of clothing but not the skin, rendering a person basically naked, and at high resolution! The TSA says that they will adjust the settings so that it is as least revealing as possible. I am assuming that means turning up the contrast and brightness ratio. But judging from the man's butt crack in the example photo, not much will be left to the imagination.

Put aside that fact that this technology seems more applicable to a 1980's type of threat (are terrorist really so stupid as to try and get a gun on an airplane) than the threats we face today. Like for example the unscreened cargo that is in the baggage hold of EVERY SINGLE domestic and international flight.

So would it bother you to walk through one of these machines? What if the person watching the monitor only watched people of their same gener? What about kids, specifically your teenage son or daughter walking through the machine? Under what conditions would it be ok with you? If it got you through security at the airport quicker would you do it?