HOAX: Airport Body Scanner Images Were Faked

Posted by The Mad Ape as Education, Oddities, Scams

Back on January 9th, 2010 I ran a story that appeared on a brother-in-arms site The Telecrap Urinal. It is a great blog and I suggest that all of you check it out. Anyway one story on there caught my attention so I blogged it here. It was the one about the Naked Body Scanner Images.

faked body scan image

Well on the Telecrap Site the owner posted a follow-up comment:

I was duped. This image is a fake and I apologize to everyone. This image is based on a CGI and then it was altered by creating a negative of it.

That way when I reversed it all of the color detail was exposed. I have tried the same process with what I know to be authentic airport scans but can not duplicate the result I got here.

I contemplated removing this blog entry but decided to leave it for information purposes. As Sal would say: “This is a traction.”

So with that I decided to dig into this and have found the evidence that these photos are a hoax. I found the following on the PhotoAlto Image Bank:

cgi girl

Now upon closer examination of two of these pictures you can see that they are close to same as the forgeries.

CGI Girl Front

CGI Girl Back

So someone went to great lengths to pull this stunt off. I wonder who? Is this just a computer geek nerd type trying to have a little humor at our expense or is it part of a nefarious disinformation campaign by NWO scum?

No way of knowing for sure but whoever it was had to spend some money to buy the photos without a watermark and had to have some great computer skills to doctor the photos to make them look like body scan images.

We can all learn a bit of a lesson with this. Be careful of what you watch, read, and listen to. You just never know. Which reminds me… Anti-NWO tallk show host, Alex Jones, still runs this fake as the real deal, even though I have heard his sidekick Jason Bermas admit they were faked. Makes me wonder about that guy sometimes!

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15 Responses

Viagra Vince

February 18th, 2010 at 11:42 pm

You mean that this hot chick is just a computer creation? I have been in love with a cartoon? I thought I was over that with Jessica Rabbit.
Mike

March 10th, 2010 at 5:00 pm

1) No, the woman was not computer generated. It states on the photography website selling these: “photographer Dominique Douïeb captures the beauty and grace of the female form in 360 ° as he circles and shoots his subject from every angle.”

2) No, it is not necessary to purchase these photos to remove the watermarks, because the same software used to invert the images can remove the watermarks.

Anyone with even moderate photoshop experience could do this easily in 1-2 hours at most. A skilled user could do this in less than a half hour.
Aaron Kulkis

July 21st, 2010 at 1:03 pm

Actually, there’s more than just circumstantial evidence that this is a hoax. — there are four GLARING faults that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the image is a hoax.

I’m not going to rely on circumstantial evidence of the photos being stock photos that already exist on the net… I can do FAR better than that, with affirmative proof that what is presented is counterfeit.

PROOF OF COUNTERFEITING #1: The supposed X-ray not only shows counter, but is even tri-tone (light, shadow, and sepia/skin-tone).

PROOF OF COUNTERFEITING #2:

Look at the full color image. Note how the the woman’s jeans form-fit perfectly around the inside of her upper thighs and pelvis. Particularly, note the inverted triangle of “empty” space bounded by the very top of her nner thighs, and the pubic area. In the full-color image, you this area is COMPLETELY UNOBSTRUCTED.

Now note that the supposed X-ray image on the right shows the barrel of the pistol COMPLETELY OBSTRUCTING the same line of sight.
Therefore, these images were NOT made at the same time — which directly contradicts what you would do if you were taking “demonstration” images.

This alone indicates that the supposed “x-ray image” was ACTUALLY the product of adding in the pistol and knife images to a photo of a nude female (either before or after inverting it to make a reverse-tone image).

PROOF OF COUNTERFEITING #3:

Hair. Backscatter images do NOT show hair.

If Backscatter images actually DID show hair, then all you would need to do is wear wool (sheep hair) clothing to hide anything you want behind it — which would ELIMINATE the controversy, because then you “help help, perverts at TSA want to see my [whatever]” would have to do no more than wear an article of wool clothing in the areas of concern, even OUTSIDE of their undergarments.

PROOF OF COUNTERFEITING #4 — the most damning off all.

X-Rays do not detect skin color, where as this supposed x-ray image CLEARLY shows the darker skin color around the nipples.

Please show us an example of a single x-ray of a hand which shows variations in skin color (such as the gripping surfaces of the fingers and palms of people of African descent, or any one with either freckles or age-spots on their hands).

The fact is, you can’t, because x-rays aren’t influenced by melanin by that much of an extent, yet in THIS set of images, the melanin around the nipple has some super-powerful influence on X-rays.

Case closed — the image set a counterfeit and fraudulent, made for the purpose of disinformation.
Rudy

August 8th, 2010 at 9:37 am

The case may be closed but everyone should reject naked body scanners…period. They are intrusive, invade the the body with either high frequency XRays or electromagnetic waves.

Remember this. The TSA and Homeland Security can not force you to be scanned by one of these devices and they can not stop you from boarding your flight for failure to comply.

Insist on traditional methods and tell this NWO scum to go fuck themselves.
Jay

August 22nd, 2010 at 1:26 pm

Once again people stun me with not only their lack of knowledge but their lack of ability to even research an issue before they stick their foot in there mouths.

First: The body scanners use radio frequency, ie waves, not x-rays of electromagnetic waves so they do not “invade the body” because they do not penetrate the skin.

Second: TSA can stop you from boarding your flight merely by not clearing you through security. Your ticket is confirmation that you rented a space on a plane not a clear all pass through security. At anytime you can be turned away and escorted out of a security checkpoint. The supervisor in charge only needs to justify to his/her manager the reason why.

You can choose not to use the scanners but doing so will require that you be subject to a pat-down screening. If you choose not to do either then you won’t fly because you, and only you, decided you wanted to be difficult.

I’ve seen it happen when I travel. Most TSA staff are polite, pleasant and will answer most questions if asked politely for an explanation. I enjoy my job but do not envy the screeners for the job they do. I’ve seen them cussed and yelled at while just trying to complete their jobs. I volunteer for the scanners when I travel but I also do not have a problem with physical privacy.

I recently traveled through BWI and the supervisor was giving directions to the passengers as he walked up and down the area we were in. He answered questions and talked to the kids and their parents and was pleasant but made it clear that the screening staff did not make the rules just enforced them. One passenger got a little flippant with him about the screening process and the supervisor summed it up for him and those of us that heard him; “I screen everyone equally, your all suspect until you clear screening and prove otherwise. McVay was a Caucasian decorated US soldier and if I had passed him on the street I would not have thought he’d kill all those people. On that note you can either go though screening or leave right now, your choice otherwise you will be screened before you get on a plane at this airport.”

I liked the directness and honesty and I’m gonna go out of that pier when I fly next week. At least I know he will do his best to protect those he screens. Happy travels and give the screeners a break.
The Mad Ape

August 22nd, 2010 at 1:56 pm

@ Jay.

You are missing the point presented by Rudy. You CAN refuse the naked body scanner. They can not force you to use this device. Not only is it intrusive, it is dangerous.

Further this device does noting to improve security. NOTHING. I have heard people argue that it would have caught the infamous underwear bomber. Sorry…nothing could be further from the truth. It has no way of detecting powdered explosives.

Also Jay the point may be moot as there is a class action lawsuit to have these things suspended as primary use due to privacy and religious issues.

These things are nothing but a bullshit fear machine courtesy of the New World Order – PERIOD!
BW

November 15th, 2010 at 3:45 am

Another way of knowing this is a hoax is because the scanner image isn’t right. Try any other body scanner image you can find on the internet and invert it with a photo editor.
You’ll see that the dark and light areas are the wrong way around AFTER inverting.
ReallyEvilCanine

November 16th, 2010 at 3:03 pm

The source was /Das Bild/ a German tabloid newspaper. A critic site, /Bildblog/ broke the story of the fakery [German-only]: http://www.bildblog.de/14866/kehraus-2009/

What they did took less than five minutes with Photoshop: Google for gun X-ray pic, reverse girl picture, paste in gun & resize it, done.
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July 20th, 2011 at 4:53 pm

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We are at war with the over zealot factions that will stop at nothing to achieve anarchy.

Submit to the scans and take it like a man. Otherwise go Fuck yourselves and take the bus.
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