Schneier on TSA Backscatter X-ray Backlash

The most interesting point is made in one of the links by an Israeli security expert who helped design security in Tel Aviv:

And here's (http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=2941610&...) Rafi Sela, former chief security officer of the Israel Airport Authority:

A leading Israeli airport security expert says the Canadian government has wasted millions of dollars to install "useless" imaging machines at airports across the country.

"I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747," Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada.

"That's why we haven't put them in our airport," Sela said, referring to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, which has some of the toughest security in the world.

(emphasis mine)

Bruce is one of the plaintiffs in EPIC's lawsuit trying to block deployment of the scanners