Well, from looking at the news and some of the evaluation discussions coming through here in Japan, it appears that at least Japan and the US will be implementing body scanners for boarding processing in the next year. Bruce Schneier touches on this subject a couple times throughout his blog, but in Japan’s case, I have some very reliable insight to some of the considerations by local officials. Of course, Japanese throw the latest, greatest technical solution at something as a CYA move all the time. Nobody wants to be responsible for a bad decision, so little thought goes into the big picture if it will keep an airplane from getting blown to pieces. This article shows that US may be leaning in that direction more. Now, the only two gaping holes in airport security are DHS thugs manning the gates and cargo.
Any comments welcome!!