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An anonymous reader writes "New security check points in 2020 will look just like something out of the futuristic movie, The Minority Report. The idea of the new checkpoints will allow high traffic to pass through just as you were walking at a normal pace. No more waving a wand to get through checkpoints — the new checkpoint can detect if you have plans to set off a bomb before you even enter the building."
Trials will be deemed unnecessary in 2025.
Yeah right.
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Or just a raging hangover?
> No more waving a wand to get through checkpoints -- the new checkpoint can detect if you
> have plans to set off a bomb before you even enter the building.
In other words, anyone who looks Islamic will be stopped and searched as will a few others chosen at random.
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This is retarded. Suppose I have to go to the bathroom and look nervous like I won't make it time? I'll probably set off the scanner as a suspected terrorist.
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FTA: "We are running at about 78% accuracy on mal-intent detection..."
And that's supposed to be good? What fraction of the remaining 22% can we expect to be false positives?
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I look forward to a future in which the police stop me more than they already do.
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78% accurate in a controlled setting is nothing to be proud of. I'll grant the fact that they're still in the early research stages, as they say, but I'd need to see an accuracy rate of over 99% in a real world application for me to consider it a valid option. Otherwise there will be far too many false positives for it to be useful in a high-traffic situation.
I'll leave it to other people to point out everything else wrong with this kind of system.
Murphey's fighting Occam, and we're in the stands.
So... nobody could ever be unaware they're carrying a "disruptive device" (is that like a crackberry?) through a checkpoint?
What we really need is a machine to identify ahead of time all those fucknozzles who are likely come up with or approve of futile ideas like these.
So, when I walk into the airport, in December, at minus twenty, in shorts, nad my skin temperature is about ten degrees colder than the average, and my heart rate is about 20 points higher than the average, and I'm not sweating, and there's snow in my boot, I'm going to be intercepted every time -- for being different. Great.
But really, this time I read the article, and welcome to the same stupid problems for the same stupid solutions. The system is basically a remote polygraph. So you can walk at full speed while it assesses you. So we'll have longer corridors, but the exercise will be nice.
Of course the tests get to measure people's personal intents. Great. So anwser two questions. . .
- do you think trained criminals can learn to pass polygraphs? C.E.O.'s don't seem to have much trouble. Frame of mind and all that.
- so crime will once again shift back to the days of slipping something into someone else's bags. that someone else has no idea that they're carrying a bomb. The criminal may set off the system, but he's got no evidence on him anymore. So what exactly are you going to find? And which plane are you going to check? Even the criminal may not know which random passenger was marked.
This is why security never learns. Criminals have an arsenal of techniques from thousands of years of history. And those criminals get to pick what they want to use today. And those criminals have a darn good reward for picking the correct one. On the other hand, security personnel, and I include this system's designers, try to solve the current problem, and ofter forget the old problems. The criminals know exactly which systems are presently in place, as well as any routines being used by personnel.
So once again, we've managed to stop the dumb criminal with nothing to gain, and amused, or worse challenged, the intelligent criminal with lots to gain.
So, you get a bomb planted on someone without their knowledge.
You do have to actually check for the bomb or other weapon at some point.
All a terrorist group would have to do would be get the suicide bomber to not know whether or not the backpack contained a bomb *this* time, while knowing that it eventually would. The details of the attack are left to the reader...
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Its 2009, so the future will be futuristic compared to now? Go figure.
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Sounds pretty hokey to me... As a frequent air traveler, give me the old fashioned pat down search with full baggage inspection - in fact I felt safest after 9/11 when they did random searches at the gate too - I have seen more than one person lead away from a gate in handcuffs after a random gate search turned up illegal drugs or other such nonsense. So the fact that they made it through the gate in the first place points out the fallibility of the current process. IMHO we need MORE hands on security not less, more sniffers and x-ray machines - I can easily factor in a longer wait at the airport, the peace of mind is worth it to me...
The FAST system detects physiological signs of stress. In testing it detected "hostile intent" in volunteers. The obvious question is how can volunteers have valid hostile intent? You can't test deception with fake deception. The generalizability of physiological response to stressors is a basic tenet of physiological psychology (the folks who brought you FAST's grand dad, the polygraph).
The volunteers knew they were volunteers in a study and in no danger. In practice, this device will trigger on every person who is nervous about flying, because the physiological markers for stress are the same regardless of the reason. There will be many, many more of those than with 'hostile intent'. The test study was unable to have adequate control (real, naive persons) to prove its claim.
Most people can learn simple biofeedback techniques to control physiological reactions to some degree. Those with hostile intent don't need to get very good at it, they just need to be able to control it better than an untrained person with a fear of flying.
FAST isn't supposed to work. Its owners know it can't. It's just supposed to be believable enough to convince the public that it could catch bad guys to increase public confidence, and to convince the government that further funding is warranted.
Stick the designers in it and ask them if it can tell hostile intent from fear of flying (and base GAO investigation of the program upon the result, to make it more salient). They'll say yes. Either it'll trigger and show them to be lying, or it won't and so it doesn't work.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
I'd be very curious to see their testing protocol. Is it like the War Department, which straps big bullseyes on simulated enemy missiles and then straps them to the backs of giant turtles, so that they can claim a great interception rate?
Firstly, they don't say the false positive rate , they only say the true positive rate. By now many poster here will have picked that up. Even at 1% false positive , pass 10000 person thru the check point, 100 false positive, yada yada law of great number etc...
Secondly It only does detect external signs of nervousness at best and nothing else. Such sign of nervousness MIGHT be displayed by people with malevolent intent, but certainly not only by them. Consider where such detector might be implanted : courtroom, IRS, FBI buildings, airports before boarding. A lot of place where people WILL be more often than not nervous. And what will happens ? Terrorist or any other mal intended smart persons will get an additional training : 1) meditate to lower all sign of nervousness 2) take a nyquil or whatever calm you down.
Thirdly, as the various western governments seem to go toward more and more security of that type, TV camera, drone and whatnot, I have long stopped fearing terrorist (and I barely missed getting in a bomb blast in Paris metro by a few dozen minutes...). Nowadays I fear the police and the governement and their big-brotherisation more than not. I fear that the time for the third box (the munition one) will come way sooner than I ever expected in my dystopian nightmare.
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So they'll be able to set up covert checkpoints that people walk past without knowing they're being assessed, and they're looking for 'malcontents'? In other words, this is a system for picking out people who are not thrilled with whatever the current government (or junta) is doing, so they can be charged and locked up in those shiny new detention centers that Cheney's company Halliburton have built in the US. That's an easy way to cut down on the possibility of protests in general, and of 'undesirables' at any sort of public or private gathering. Private companies will want to install them in their facilities to monitor employees. This sort of thing has no redeeming social value.
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This will just cause the evolution of undetectable people who will then topple the Empire.
... Arnie in 'Total Recall'?
100's of freedom fighters bum rushing the airpor,t all acting like undesirables.
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&, is very useful in helping us do the same (knowing what we're doing, & why).
...as a replacement for existing security stations, at least, but if it was an extra layer of security then I suppose it might actually be somewhat useful.
I'd imagine this would prove somewhat useful after people have gone through security, perhaps when walking to their gate, the automated system can have one quick check to see if anyone's acting suspicious (really, that's all this is, an automated "suspect" detector, something veteran police already do anyway) so they can have one more quick pat down before they get on the plane. So what if it's only 70% accurate, if we assume that the security gates are 90% effective at not letting "terrorists" through, then that's going to potentially catch about 7% of the remaining 10% that do get through.
Still, I think it'd be better to just train a few people to keep an eye out via CCTV and whatnot. Probably a lot cheaper, too.
And here I was thinking we finally had a reason to properly fund the Ministry of Silly Walks.
"Security Checkpoints Predict What You Will Do on Thursday January 01, @01:27PM"
Damn it's already passed. Oh well, "eating lunch" wouldn't have been a revelation.
... security checkpoints wil look like the compound gate in Mad Max.
Have gnu, will travel.
So basically what this article is really saying is, that by 2020 the West's gradual transition to total fascism will be near completion.
There will be robots around all over doing chores... and they are impervious to all checkpoints!
On the other hand, for mere humans, there will be makeup that makes the sensors moth...
will become financially bankrupt well before they choke their peoples rights even more. Happy New Year!
So, when I walk into the airport, in December, at minus twenty, in shorts, nad my skin temperature is about ten degrees colder than the average, and my heart rate is about 20 points higher than the average, and I'm not sweating, and there's snow in my boot, I'm going to be intercepted every time -- for being different. Great.
Get over yourself. You aren't that different. You certainly aren't different enough from any other human to register with a system looking for subliminal actions and behaviors.
You think you are the ONLY ONE that dresses down for a trip from a cold place to a warm one? Once again - get over yourself.
do you think trained criminals can learn to pass polygraphs?
Possibly but these are not polygraphs we are talking about, but very subliminal actions you cannot block.
so crime will once again shift back to the days of slipping something into someone else's bags.
(a) You can't put a bomb into anyones bag that can drive a plane into a building.
(b) I dare you to even try approaching another persons bag in an airport. People are paranoid about their luggage, and if anything it would be far harder to do this than to get something through security today!
This is why security never learns. Criminals have an arsenal of techniques from thousands of years of history.
And this is why people like you never learn. Because throughout history, a policy of defense in depth has shown to be mostly effective while a policy of zero security has shown to end in disaster.
You like to throw water on this plan, fine - what is your plan? Strip search everyone? Perhaps arrest anyone dressing funny? Why is behavioral analysis not the preferred method of detecting potential problems when it's the least prone to unfair (and dangerous) profiling?
So once again, we've managed to stop the dumb criminal with nothing to gain
Considering that's 90% of them - sounds good to me.
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Gadget security, no matter how good the gadget, is ever going to provide security. The false positives will be worse than Vista UAC and pretty soon people will start ignoring them or turning the sensitivity down to the point it's nearly useless.
Anything that's uses behavior can be fooled. Even lie detectors can be spoofed with training.
Once again Homeland Insecurity spending billions to provide the most sophisticated false sense of security money can buy.
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How about working towards the reason someone would try to bomb a plane?
Or, make non-bombable planes.. Hammering at only one side of the problem doesn't lead to the best solutions.
Is it me or do all the 'in 5-10 years' tech stories lately say that everything is going to look like Minority Report? Did this suddenly become the only sci-fi movie that might represent what things are going to look like a decade from now? Nevermind that it's probably going to look almost the same as it does these days unless Obama decides to tear down and rebuild every city in the nation.
Been there done that. I had my car stolen years ago. The police put me through hell getting it back so I was a little uneasy with police. About a week later I pulled up to a light and saw a cop facing me coming the other way. I looked away nervously because of what they had just put me through a week earlier. Well he turned around and followed me right up to where I was working. He tells me not to move handcuffs me and sticks me in the back of his car. It took me 20 minutes to get him to admit why he handcuffed me. Turns out the license plate was reported as stolen. When I bought the car it was missing the front license plate so when it was recovered they wrote it up as stolen without telling me. I explained it never had a front plate but he wasn't impressed. After another 10 minutes I convinced him to check the registration and sure enough it was registered to me. He never did get a call back I so asked if he could remove it from the stolen list when he finally let me go? He said no I'd have to replace the plates and there was nothing stopping me from being re-arrested on my way to the DMV. Just to spike the ball my employer saw me handcuffed and gave me a grilling about it. Needless to say I avoid the police, the cop was a real dick about it, and anytime I see one I stare them straight in the eye and smile.
Using blinking and tense responses as a means of screening means that people that are having a bad day get a friendly strip search just to brighten it up. At some point you have to say just fuck it and stay home. I know it makes their jobs easier harassing us and invading our privacy but in the end I'd rather not fly and I sure as hell don't want to hear the airlines whining about falling numbers of bookings when we are treated like animals. They can bite me.
No more waving a wand to get through checkpoints -- the new checkpoint can detect if you have plans to set off a bomb before you even enter the building."
Let me (apparently) be the first to treat this claim with skepticism. Oh, anonymous submitters and their mysterious technologies that come out of the blue on a New Year's Day. I think there should at least be some disclosure that the author has a vested interest in people thinking that this is possible, but the practical effect is just going to be a technologizing of the "Idiot Security Guard" model they have going at the moment. What difference does it make if you are hassled for no reason because a computer randomly selected your boarding pass or if some slug of an official thinks your laptop bag is just a little too lame. You're still being hassled randomly.
The truth is that all of the DHS procedures produce only false positives. Why not economize and pay only union wages for this service rather than jillions for an overblown /dev/random?
When I was a kid, we only had one Darth.
We all seem to have figured out that this system is a joke, so I won't address that.
The bigger problem is that the DHS really thinks something like this kind of system will work. We've seen several different screening systems, fingerprinting systems, etc, and they all share the same "whiz-bang technology" attribute. That is that somewhere, there's some great piece of hardware, software, or black box that's going to save us from "the terrorists" Real Soon Now. I guess I'm more than a little skeptical of this approach to the problem.
I don't know enough about the problem to know what the solution is (maybe just human operatives). But I do know enough about "whiz-bang" technology to know that it's snake oil.
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Thank god for being an absurdly white nerdy looking guy with no fashion sense whatsoever, that is built like a ballerina.
I never realized how handy that is up until the security craze started.
Then you'll be questioned and/or searched, deemed to not be a threat and sent on your way. And I suppose you'll learn to go wee before the flight.
>>Suppose I have to go to the bathroom and look nervous like I won't make it time?
New game: Which driver having a BJ can get through the checkpoint without detection. That person will have the ultimate poker face.
If there is anything I don't like about flying, its taking off your shoes when flying from the US. Seriously, airports have watched people in a number of different ways long before '9-11'. What I fear is two-fold: Security will rely too much on non-proven technology and anybody who'd blow themselves up or hijack a plane is a psychopath and probably won't show outside signs of intent. As one reader correctly said: "This is a remote polygraph." How many courts of law accept that as evidence?
Its not the 1% false-positive rate, but rather the apparent 12% false negative rate. There will always be a need for some sort of human security. Surely it can be better than the TSA's song and dance. Security is better at many airports of the West. Flying has been and always will be the safest way to travel -- even if there was no security at all. Its those very few psychopaths that make the headlines that make people actually believe terrorism is a problem.
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As if that's a bad thing.
Let's see now... just who sets off bombs on aircraft, takes hostages, hijacks, etc. What primary distinguishing characteristic can we find to help predict who will do that? Eye color? Favourite sports team? /sarcasm
For those who slept through Modern History class, I'll tell: religion. Specifically Muslims.
They are the most likely group to set off a bomb on an airplane or hijack it. We can pretend that's not the case (and continue with the current "security theatre" at airports) in order to protect the delicate sensibilities of the PC crowd, but that doesn't change facts.
And for those peaceful muslims who are offended at what I've just said, perhaps you should be more troubled by the actions of your fellow muslims and do more to reform your religion.
>>...anyone who looks Islamic will be stopped...
http://www.dhs.gov/xres/programs/gc_1218480185439.shtm#9 Project Overview: The Homeland Security Advanced Research Project Agency (HSARPA) and S&T Directorate Human Factors Behavior Sciences (HFBS) Division Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) Project is an initiative to develop innovative, non-invasive technologies to screen people at security checkpoints. FAST is grounded in research on human behavior and psychophysiology, focusing on new advances in behavioral/human-centered screening techniques. The aim is a prototypical mobile suite (FAST M2) that would be used to increase the accuracy and validity of identifying persons with malintent (the intent or desire to cause harm). Identified individuals would then be directed to secondary screening, which would be conducted by authorized personnel. This project is part of the HFBS innovations portfolio (Homeland Security Advanced Research Project Agency Program).
I wasn't logged in when I read it, so it looked like this:
"Security Checkpoints Predict What You Will Do on Thursday January 01..."
I expect that this won't work - typical of any government research project 11 years out.
It's an idea they have - won't work
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Check out the screenshot, the scariest thing at an airport will be running on WINDOWS!!
If I ever have to be waiting in the security line for 4 hours due to it crashing every 10 minutes, I'm gonna be pissed.
Polygraph tests can be easily fooled by someone who knows what they're doing. What's to say this system is any different?
https://antipolygraph.org/lie-behind-the-lie-detector.pdf
I am so nervous of being detained and having something which I cherish confiscated even though it is not dangerous, that I get extra attention every time, meaning I am even more nervous the next time.
I have given up flying (which I used to enjoy) because it is too stressful to pass through security.
I have significantly increased the likelihood of dying or being injured, by driving instead.
And the airlines wonder why they are losing customers?
By 2020 everyone will be chipped with something similar to the Verichip. Walking through the entrance of one of these scanning stations your chip is scanned, the terminal does a query of your ID and factors the background information in with FAST. This if VERY plausible. We are soon to tagged like cattle. First we will be asked in the form of incentives such as easier commerce transactions. Then it will be mandated in the name of domestic security. There are too many technical reasons for this to be a bad idea. I don't see that as being a barrier to politicians pushing forward with this complete invasion of personal liberty. We are already in the first stages of living in a police state and most people do not even realize it. I have to admit that 2020 is a VERY conservative estimate, as computing power is getting cheaper and faster. In 11 years we will look back at 2009 be thankful for the amount of unmonitored freedom still we had.
I will continue to wear my tinfoil hat even when it's not in fashion.
Just like lie detector tests are useless against most sociopaths, this type of crap is useless against true fanatics, people who are calmly resolved to their fate. Instead of dumping billions of dollars into creating a better curtain, how about fixing the shit behind it? P.S. Apologies in advance to those who didnt get the Wizard of Oz reference.
What about people who have Autism or other disorders that cause them to express emotion differently? Are you going to lock me up just because I don't seem like a regular Joe Sixpack?
I find this sort of thing to be kind of scary.
Measruing pupil diameter, heart rate, facial expression, etc - these things are not soley indicators of mal intent - we can say that sterotypically people who DO end up blowing things up may have had a faster heart rate or disalted pupils, etc....But we cannot say that if someone seems stressed out or angry or nervous (which a lot of people are, especially when going through a government checkpoint) that they are planning on blowing something up....
I can see it now...You're having an extremely bad day, maybe you suffer from a serious anxiety disorder, or just got in a fight with your significant other...you go through the checkpoint and they are ON YOUR ASS....(your day just got a whole lot worse because now you're being detained and questioned).
Just another stop on the surveillance society express.....If this continues at the rate it hsa been going, then eventually life in public may be like a giant jail with no bars....With cameras and 'wardens' everywhere, new technology to detect anyone who is out of the norm in apperarance, behavior, word, deed, maybe even your very thoughts......so that anyone who isn't a good productive little citizen who toes the party line is singled out for harrassment and eventually assimilated or constantly watched.
My name is Schroedinger. My cat's in the bag. :)
And once more we see the government creating technology to harass people over a paper tiger. The chances of anyone in the US being injured or killed by a terrorist attack is vanishingly small, yet 41,000 or so still die on our highways each year.
Oh, but it will keep the Military Industrial Complex going. And it will cost billions to implement. But the ROI sucks rocks.
Not at all, depending on your false positive rate and the predictability of the false negatives. If false negatives are random and you don't let people who are marked as "dangerous" leave and try again, you don't need your false negative rate to be that low -- it still presents a very significant problem to a potential attacker.
False positives, on the other hand, are a big problem. The enormous majority of people are negatives, so with any appreciably large false positive rate, nearly all positives will be false. You then need a secondary system to separate real positives from false -- otherwise all you're doing is marking lots of random people as dangerous.
Granted, all they cite is their "accuracy", which is ambiguous -- it's neither a false positive nor false negative rate.
Is that like, jumbo shrimp?
Professional (bus/1st class) tourist?
Obviously not a pilot
or a concerned citizen.
Maybe just a travel agent
trying to make a killing
or, a mischievous teenager.
Certainly, no statistician.
Political analyst. That's it.
Have you seen the speed that hospital staff walk?
I think my walking speed has increased >25% since I started to work in one. Unfortunately, it has not made me loose any weight yet...
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
When it becomes technologically possible to sort one's opponents from the supporters, and by other technological means, to prevent them travelling, communicating, or learning about events, there will be no need for those who already have power, to listen to the opposition and no need to keep up the pretence that they favour democracy.
We will only keep our democracy if we prevent the ruling classes ( and especially their executive ) from putting these mechanisms in place.
Too late for much of it.
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Transparent diamond shoes... perfect! Only completely barefoot beats that.
Did you know that diamonds come in many different colors?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
I'm running late for a job interview, I'm also nervous as hell about it. I'm walking briskly through the foyer ... oh, hello offic... *TASER*
Or a boss, who has mal-intent bubbling in his mind as he strides into the office to yell at incompetent staffers.
A Mother is angry with her child from hell, wishing she never had it. She steps through the security checkpoint as a sniper recieves targetting information... *HEADSHOT*
DHS seems confident about the potential efficacy of the system even this. I'm sure this system would be plagued by false positives even with 2020 technology.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
another excuse to pull brown people aside for additional screening.
to detect Terminators instead of using dogs...
Call John Connor.
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J. Edgar Hoover was in charge when the polygraph was sold to the FBI by no less an expert than the artist that drew Wonder Woman. So who would be getting the kickbacks this time?
If I were religious, which I am not, and was embarked on a suicide mission on behalf of [insert deity here], convinced it would please aforementioned deity and I'll be richly rewarded for it somehow, wouldn't I be rather calm, unafraid, maybe even happy to be about to reap my reward?
Does it seem like this sort of "mal-intent detection" apparatus would be easily defeated by simple faith or belief?
They're wrongly assuming terrorists think and behave like criminals.
If she wanted a fat cock in her pussy, would she tell you? Yeah. Your anecdote excludes families that aren't into inbreeding.
Actually, she did tell him that, but in a typical fashion she said it in a round-about way, and he plain old didn't get it.
From his own post:
My sister says her favorite objects are [...] anatomy labs
Exactly what do you think is IN an "anatomy lab"? I'll give you a clue- the term "lab" doesn't necessarily mean a building & most likely is not an abbreviation of "Laboratory". If you conduct an "Anatomy Lab" it could mean doing anything related to examining, or performing experiments involving, anatomy.
"Lab" could also be an abbrevation for "Labia".
Dude, your sister is a Lesbian Slut.
Parent post is the best use of deductive reasoning in the history of mankind. Also the logic is unassailable.
I remember sigs. Oh, a simpler time!
...so what do we do about the state-sponsored ones? I'm so sick and tired of being asked to fear the negligible threat, when its the State that i should be worrying about.
Stop ripping off movie plots and start getting realistc. Current scientific state-of-te-art is that it is entirely unknown whether this can be done, ever. 12 years from a fundamental question being unsolved to its answer being used in a working product is completely unrealistic. Typical times in the past are in the 20-50 years range, and only after the fundamental question being answerd.
Will this type of stupidity in the press ever end? I doubt it.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
that while you where waiting in front of the gate for your unknown terrorist friend, which we cant locate, you notified him that you suspect you have been discovered by not calling him, and then consequently you acted completely like a normal traveler. Our checkpoint software says that your intentions are very clear, and now we have figure out how you managed to hide things from us besides the DHS searching your house for five times. The absence of any hints for explosives or communications proves that you are not only a terrorist, but also extremely dangerous."
Hello? I am on my behalf am always getting a little bit suspicious if people invite me to visit wonderland.
According to the article all the much vaunted device does is measure heart-rate, blink rate, direction of gaze, perspiration level. All somatic quantities linked to anxiety levels. Nothing else.
And there's the rub. You can't catch someone who's calm and at peace with what he's about to do. Now that is a state of mind. Does "religious fanatic on a righteous mission" ring a bell? They have high levels of anxiety do they?
Or someone with naturally low anxiety levels who has been trained to commit violence and is at ease with that? Or someone who is able to take his mind off something? Or even someone who has been sedated?
This sort of monitoring might get an 80% success rate on ordinary Americans who are asked to carry an incriminating device through a checkpoint, but it was never tested with professional criminals. Like pick-pockets. Or fraudsters. Or even politicians for that matter.
That's why this scanner seems to be a bit useless against pre-meditated acts of terrorism committed by dedicated terrorists. It may have some success against people who are planning to spray grafitti on the wall of the office loo though. Nice going to counter a high-impact threat.
Now people can move through as if they weren't being screened at all, as opposed to just being delayed and harassed and having their bags checked as if they weren't being screened at all.
2021: With no change in effectiveness of security measures since introduction of the "just walk through and don't bother being screened" system, the whole thing is declared a success. Thousands of unionized screeners at airports across the country continue to receive paychecks until 2221.
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didnt hear something that is as idiotic as this.
we couldnt even implement a good man-machine interface using brain waves, or even eye motions, but some people are predicting motive predicting checkpoings in 2020.
ok. ill take that. and add a $5 trip to andromeda galaxy for me in addition to that.
human motives and emotions and behaviour is complex. bodily responses are COMMON. the same physiological reaction of body to two different conditions can be the same. one may be blowing up a bomb, one is anxiety over some serious situation.
yet, a checkpoint will tell them apart. despite the entire science of psychology is in infant stages of analyzing human emotions and physical responses.
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Well, except for Anwar "No Nose" Al Hakam. But the face recognition scan should snag him.
Technically, murder-suicide does not violate the golden rule.
I'm sorry, but the people who commit these crimes are generally NOT nervous, they're resolved and committed, thus perfectly calm and focused on the task at hand.
They've had their time of angst before they got close to the building. To them it makes no difference whether they're caught, tried, and killed by execution, because in their minds they're dead already 1 minute AFTER going through the checkpoint.
Heck, given the checkpoint is also a chokepoint they will be equally effective detonating their devices near the scanner as anywhere else. What do you do then mr security officer?
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It's interesting research, but I'm guessing this can be proven to be just as fallacious as polygraph tests. In short, you can fake a physiological response through training.
How about everyone comes through quickly - person by person - enters a bomb-proof enclosure, and is subjected to measures that would set off about 99% of bombs for premature detonation.
Maybe every 1 in 1,000,000 times you might get a *whoomph* followed by the need for a clean-up crew and a dust-bin, while renders the room unavailable for a time and everyone else has to go through the other enclosures, but it'd still be faster and more effective than the current methods :-)
That's going to be fun - there will be more delays then ever when the usual waves of flu strike (bird flu!), or when someone carries an extra packet of cigarettes. What's more, what are the effects of false positives? After all, you are about to accuse someone of nefarious motives without evidence, which is somewhat wide of the mark of the constitution and possible of their Human Rights.
If all that money spent on this nonsense was spent on (a) trying to identify a way to accept that other nations may just view life differently, (b) mass collaboration amongst newspapers to keep any terrorism off the front page and (c) human intelligence on discovering where someone is still planning to sponsor attacks I am willing to bet it would have been a more efficient use of the funds.
But that would be like hard work, no?
What would be your recommendation for preventing terrorist attacks?
They don't grade fathers, but if your daughter's a stripper, you fucked up. --Chris Rock
So, From what I can gather from this article is:
It detects Thermal differences and mannerisms as you approach the portal.
So if you have to take a raging dump because you have a FLU and your nervous about this new "don't worry, act normally" sign you see ahead of you, and your worried you'll get stopped and cause even worse embarrassment to you and your travel partners, your likely to get picked up.
This make me wanna fly just that much more.
THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!! eventually.
There's high probability that any given person was sleeping off a hang-over Thursday.
-ghostis