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IBM Patenting Airport Profiling Technology
An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek's Wolfe's Den reports that IBM has filed a dozen applications to patent a sophisticated airport security system which supports passive software-based profiling of potentially dangerous passengers off of pre-programmed rules. The setup uses a collection of sensors — video, motion, biometric and even olfactory — in terminals and around the airport perimeter, to supply raw data. 'These patents are built on the inference engine, which [analyzes sensor data and] has the ability to calculate very large data sets in real time,' says co-inventor Roger Angell. A small grid of networked computers delivers the necessary processing power. Two applications go one better than Israeli-style security, analyzing furtive glances to detect, according to the title of the patent application, 'Behavioral Deviations by Measuring Eye Movements,' as well as measuring respiratory patterns."
Smell the coffee. There isn't any need for it.
Even if there were, this isn't the solution. This has boondoggle written all over it.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
More insanity coming from a mentally degenerate elite. Der Geist der Zeit: Faschismus.
The terrorists won when our cowardly politicians did exectly what the terrorists wanted us to do. Haiti should tell you that nature can do far more damage than any terrorist. Terrorism doesn't make flying more dangerous; despite flying's great safety record, there are far more airliner catastrophes cause by weather, human error, and equipment failure.
Security theater does nothing to make you safer, and that's all they have at the airports -- theater. There is no need for this.
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Those old factories smell bad, don't they?
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