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Discreet cellphone pic? Hard to imagine an image being "unstorable".

There is no "pic" at all. The images are never viewed by humans. All you get is a stylized threat alert indicator on a generic silhouette.

Do you have a source for this? Have all US airports upgraded to the "no pic" technology?

Not an exhaustive search, but there doesn't seem to be a definitive source that explains that all machines have been replaced, however the TSA has laid out the timetable for June 1, 2013, and that all machines were to be removed by Rapidscan at their own expense.

http://blog.tsa.gov/2013/01/rapiscan-backscatter-contract.ht...

They said they don't generate or store images period, which is at best misleading. It might not generate or store a commonly used image format, but it's still an imaging machine. The machine generates images or it's pure security theater. Either way they are attempting to deceive people and they shouldn't be trusted. (doubly so since previous claims that they don't store images is a proven lie)

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