Originally Posted by
LarryJ
What's your point? The reason for the AIT scanners is clearly for explosive detection, something that the WTMD can not do. No technology is, or will ever be, perfect.
Do you realize that the AIT nudeoscopes have a success rate of detecting an explosive - at best - of 60%? That the German government, after testing them extensively, rejected the technology as not worth the expense?
As WillCAD noted, the TSA mistaken reliance on this technology "
actively misdirects both vast sums of money and huge amounts of attention that might be better spent elsewhere, on technologies or methodologies that would have a far greater and more reliable chance of detecting and interdicting actual explosives."
TSA is nothing more than Kabuki Theater designed by its creators to create the illusion of security.