Airport Body Scanners and Possible Countermeasures

Presented at DEF CON 18 (2010), Unknown date/time (Unknown duration).

This is a 20 min talk on airport body scanners; These devices operate in the near microwave, infrared and soft X ray range. I will demo fabrics with steel fibers, carbon fibers and copper fibers and how they shield against soft x rays, also will define active vs. passive detectors.

Presenters:

• Paul F. Renda - Computer Security Analyst and Futurist
  Paul started his career working on IBM 360 and the PDP 11. He was an early advocate of using Hacking Software to check corporate data systems and has presented talks at the COMPUTER SECURITY INSTITUTE. Paul's articles have appeared in the Info Security magazine. In 1995 Paul, developed a defense against WAR DIALERS. His process was published in Info Security Magazine. A dialer is a program that dials a series of phone number and logs number that are connected to a modem. He is currently a computer security analyst and futurist.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-18/dc-18-speakers.html#Renda1

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• Black Hat USA 2014 / Pulling Back the Curtain on Airport Security: Can a Weapon Get Past TSA?