My question is: Do you need a search warrant for that? Not that it will matter, of course.

[TalkingDog]

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/

The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.

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While the biggest buyer of AS&E’s machines over the last seven years has been the Department of Defense operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, Reiss says law enforcement agencies have also deployed the vans to search for vehicle-based bombs in the U.S.

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So if it can see non solids (i.e. wire, metal, c3) how long til it's used for large caches of money or drugs?

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. Betcha fitty bucks it's already in use at Mexcan border crossings

I often wondered how they so easily find people and drugs hidden inside the bodies of tricks and vans. I think I see clearly now.

[Uncle Joe]

2. All yur secrets and privacy belong to us.

As for your final question, I don't know how long it will take but I believe it's inevitable and will not stop with money and drugs.

Thanks for the thread, TalkingDog.

[d_r]

3. You should

The supreme court ruled that they can't use thermal imaging to look in to houses to see heat signatures (like from growing pot) without a warrant. This should be the same sort of thing. That's a "should" not a "will."