A petition by a Florida man challenging the Transportation Security Administration's use of "nude body scanners" at airports was denied by a United States Federal Court this week.

Arguing that full body scans violate the U.S. citizens' Fourth Amendment protections from unreasonable searches, John Corbett has been the driving force against the TSA. He has long been of the opinion that the TSA's Rapiscan Secure 1000 body scanner and other similar devices can be easily tricked to allow a person hiding weapons through security checkpoints.

At last month's Usenix Security Conference, an independant study seemed to corroborate Corbett's claim.

However, the 11th District Court of Appeals did not appear to take the independent study into consideration. The Court found that Corbett was not "timely" in his action.

Corbett wrote on his blog this week: "Because there was a split between the judges, there is a higher chance now that the case will be accepted for review by either the full 11th Circuit or by the U.S. Supreme Court. I'll be filing my petition to ask the full 11th Circuit to hear the case next week."