Do body scanners work?

According to maverick security expert, Bruce Schneier, it appears that airport body scanners may not even work on their own terms. Here is an interesting demonstration on a German TV show which has a particular scanner detecting a cellphone, but missing the not-very-well-hidden bomb components…

Author: David

I'm David Murakami Wood. I live on Wolfe Island, in Ontario, and am Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies and an Associate Professor at Queen's University, Kingston.

2 thoughts on “Do body scanners work?”

  1. Pingback: notes from the ubiquitous surveillance society
  2. Pingback: Growing Movement Against Body Scanners in the USA « notes from the ubiquitous surveillance society

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: