Christmas Day Attempted Attack: Push to Deploy Body Scanners at Airports
On Christmas Day a Nigerian man listed on a terrorists watch list was allowed in the country, when authorities failed to stop him. Human error led to the breach, but passengers on the flight apprehended the would be attacker before he could complete the attack. After the incident proponents of whole body scanning suggested that the technology would have prevented the attack. This is disputed by technologist familiar with how the systems work. Low density materials such as powders, gels, and liquids, the substances used by the Christmas Day attacker, are not detectable by the machines.
