Are planned airport scanners just a scam? (tested – and found wanting)

[kpete]

Source: The Independent

Are planned airport scanners just a scam?

New technology that Gordon Brown relies on for his response to the Christmas Day bomb attack has been tested – and found wanting

By Jane Merrick

Sunday, 3 January 2010


The explosive device smuggled in the clothing of the Detroit bomb suspect would not have been detected by body-scanners set to be introduced in British airports, an expert on the technology warned last night.

The claim severely undermines Gordon Brown's focus on hi-tech scanners for airline passengers as part of his review into airport security after the attempted attack on Flight 253 on Christmas Day.

The Independent on Sunday has also heard authoritative claims that officials at the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Home Office have already tested the scanners and were not persuaded that they would work comprehensively against terrorist threats to aviation.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/are-planned-airport-scanners-just-a-scam-1856175.html

[msongs]

1. no, they are ways for former government officials to make lots of money nt

[Xipe Totec]

2. Time to deploy the crotch sniffing dogs... n/t

[rfranklin]

3. Mine checks everyone who comes through the door...

No terrorists to date.

[marshall]

4. I think a lot of security is psy-ops

They switch up searching operations so that nobody knows if they are going to be searched or scanned or questioned. So presumably everyone (including the terrorists) know that they might be on the radar.

However the internet as well as our media is advertising the operations of our security system, so it negates a lot of the psy-ops stuff. At least the old school stuff. Time to come up with a new plan.