Bruce Schneier pointed out on his blog Friday this video by a German TV show in which a physicist demonstrates how a full body scanner didn't catch the bomb-making components that he had hidden on his body. In a sentiment we've expressed several times since the Christmas Day underwear bomber attempt, Schneier writes: "Full-body scanners: they're not just a dumb idea, they don't actually work."
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