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Non-Tech : Bill Wexler's Dog Pound

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To: Ben Wa who wrote (8406)	11/21/2001 1:58:40 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) of 10293

msnbc.com DOES THE TECHNOLOGY WORK? What’s more, there is the unsettling question of whether InVision’s luggage screening technology, which basically boils down to CAT-scanners for suitcases, can reliably detect explosives in luggage. In 1998 the FAA pronounced the company’s machines “virtually foolproof.” But a test of the equipment at San Francisco International Airport by United Airlines found that the devices set off false alarms 30 percent of the time, and actually mistook sneakers and sausages for explosives. Problems with the equipment persisted as recently as last November. In a test conducted by the New York Port Authority at JFK International Airport, pieces of luggage laden with C-4 explosives had to be run through the InVision scanners four times before they actually set off any alarms.

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