The Full Body Scanner being talked about to bolster airport security (which may run afoul of child pornography laws) appears now to be an expensive flop waiting to happen. on a German TV show the scan failed to detect a bomb and number of other contraband items. Admittedly it was not a perfect test, but the scanner admitted the fairly easy work arounds to beat the test. We are about to spend tremendous amounts of money to implement a system we already know will not work. Instead we should learn from the Israelis and graft parts of their system on to ours.
Video embedded below. (via)
"A demonstration of a full-body scanner on German television last week revealed that the device, which uses infrared technology, was able to detect little more than a cellphone, a knife, and the girth of the man walking through it.
The problem? He was also packing a bomb.
“Admittedly, he only faced the scanner from the front and not from the side,” wrote computer security pro Bruce Schneier. “But he also didn’t hide anything in a body cavity other than his mouth — I didn’t think about that one — he didn’t use low density or thinly sliced PETN, and he didn’t hide anything in his carry-on luggage. Full-body scanners: they’re not just a dumb idea, they don’t actually work.”"
Sunday, January 24, 2010
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