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Airport Security: Thermal Lie-Detectors, Cloned Sniffer Dogs
PolygamousRanchKid writes with this quote from CNN about the future of airport security:
"Earlier this year, the International Air Transport Association demonstrated its vision for the 'checkpoint of the future' — a series of neon-lit tunnels, each equipped with an array of eye-scanners, x-ray machines, and metal and liquid detectors. ... 'Known Travelers,' (those who have completed background checks with government authorities) for instance, will cruise through the light blue security corridor with little more than an ID check, while those guided through the yellow 'Enhanced' corridor will be subjected to an array of iris scans and sensitive contraband detectors. ... Feeling guilty? Got something to hide? A team of UK-based researchers claim to have developed a thermal lie-detection camera that can automatically spot a burning conscience. ... Professor Byeong-chun Lee, who established his reputation in 2005 as the driving force behind the world's first ever dog clone, has bought a new breed of super-sniffers to South Korea's Incheon Airport. They may look like an ordinary pack of golden Labrador Retrievers, but these dogs are all genetically identical to 'Chase,' a dog whose legendary snout kept him top of Incheon's drug-detection rankings right up until his retirement in 2007."
Please don't give the TSA any ideas!
Unfortunately the terrorists have been using the same tactics. Having made a cloned cross-breed of the Underwear-Bomber and Shoe-Bomber, TSA officials are now being instructed to pay careful attention to bombs between the ankles and hips.
We'll never win.
What in god's name are this people smoking??
A "guilty feeling" detector? wtf?
I want a little of that grass, please...
-- Counting backwards since 1984!
then only sociopath will fly.
Go ahead, put this in the airports, see if I care. Bring that crap near my beloved train stations, and we will have a problem.
Palm trees and 8
Herded, you mean. Why do you people continue to put up with this crap? And don't try to tell me it's only in the USA. Europe was doing intrusive "screening" long before the USA started: we used to be criticised by Europeans for having "lax security" because we allowed people to get on airplanes without first proving that they were not armed criminals.
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Cloning dogs is interesting but just wait until selective breeding makes them smart enough to use bark-to-speech devices.
"Woof." *Cocaine.*
"Grrr..." *Explosives.*
"Bark bark bark! Whine, whine, whine." *Milkbone!!!*
Finally I will safe at an airport!
The summary is completely misleading.
According to TFA, thermal-lie detection, the dog clone, the bluetooth passenger tracking and the behavioral detection officers are in no way linked to IATA's vision of the checkpoint of the future. They are just independent developments in transport security but nonetheless irrelevant to IATA.
For everybody's reference IATA is owned and funded by private airline companies. They are not government funded in any way IATA's website
What a load of crap.
Anyone with a security clearance should be ashamed to use such a line for a multitude of reasons. Keep it real, and stand in line with those you are charged with protecting.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
If I didn't know any better, it seems like the media (still) buys into this idea of intense paranoia it is being sold to by government and private industry. It reminds people that there might be a terrorist on their plane. If there's no security the plane will blow up and you'll die. If there's 1000x more security, no terrorist, but the plane might still crash. Or, I'm willing to bet, 99.999999999% of the time you'll land safe and sound.
This whole article sounds to me like profiteering.
will cruise through the light blue security corridor with little more than an ID check, while those guided through the yellow 'Enhanced' corridor will be subjected to an array of iris scans and sensitive contraband detectors. ... Feeling guilty? Got something to hide? A team of UK-based researchers claim to have developed a thermal lie-detection camera
"the world's first ever dog clone, has bought a new breed of super-sniffers"
Hmmmm.... there;s 3 new growth industries right there. Iris scan, dector, the camera. These enchanced corridors will be built by some government contractor on a no-bid contract. Training these new dogs - the DEA and company will ask for budget increases.
I don't live in the US. If you guys ever implement this, I'm staying out of the US. I'm not going to fly to a country where I have to board an American plane and go through DHS inspection.
If our food, our homes and our cars were to go through this much scrutiny - are the airplanes REALLY checked very often? - then we'd be a lot safer. This is BS and everyone here knows it.
I think this perfectly show the current level of society and human thinking in modern media hype driven society. Bottom low. To blow up a bunch of persons it just take a bunch of persons... no plane, no train... no anything. Wake up... 'terrorists' will just laugh at our self-inflicted useless and sick expensive 'measures' ...And rich pigs with hands into 'security' business and such bullshit will just get richer....
When too much will be too much...I hope it won't be too late as well.
I'm simply not going to them any more. Society has turned them into a manifestation of cowardice and the very worst possible kind of decision-making. I won't support the industry any longer, at least insofar as I have a choice (I'm referring here to the use of my taxes, something out of my control.)
I feel bad for those of you who must fly, I really do. All the jokes we used to make about the nazi's and the soviets and "papers, please", have come home to roost.
I wonder how much longer we'll be free to drive without being subjected to this kind of thing?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Does anyone think the black market cost of a stolen, forged, or corruptly issued trusted traveler ID will be outside the budget of a terrorist group?
"International Air Transport Association demonstrated its vision for the 'checkpoint of the future' â" a series of neon-lit tunnels, each equipped with an array of eye-scanners, x-ray machines, and metal and liquid detectors."
Bomb in the lineup before you get to the neon tunnel.
"Feeling guilty? Got something to hide? A team of UK-based researchers claim to have developed a thermal lie-detection camera that can automatically spot a burning conscience."
Guilty? Hell no, I'm going to be going to Heaven as a beloved martyr in about five minutes!
So the terrorists will just divert to, what -- football stadiums, railway bridges, turnpikes.
Are there any, btw. -- terrorists I mean.
Or is this meant to control the population at large maybe.
Just asking.
So, if this is a new, "functional" lie detector, can it be fooled in the similar ways as polygraph, by clenching one's ass? I can already see all the stiff-looking people marching through the checkpoint, and suddenly relaxing when relevant part of check starts.
(Reality is, polygraph and other lie detectors work only as well as the person operating them measures against one being interrogated).
If they co-opt the dogs, who will sniff out the Terminators?
Despite my uncontrollable flushing, you should not misconstrue my seething rage at your intrusive accusatory system as a lie. I truly hate it! I truly hate you for being a part of it!
Experimenting on dogs to get better medical cures is ethically questionable...but just to get better airport dogs?!?
May Professor Lee and his children die of cancer.
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Oh, they should just install the probulator. At least you'll be treated with dignity.
Wow, that government intrusion sounds horrible. Why can't the government just focus on making my health care decisions for me and deciding how much of my income I'll be allowed to keep?
There should be three paths, one for trusted, verified passengers (green), one for people that's 'probably' trusted (orange) and one for everybody else (red).
The green path requires only a simple ID check and a standard metal scanner (portal type). If it beeps a manual scan is conducted with a wand, just like in the pre-9/11 days. Most ordinary civilized people qualify for this.
The orange path has the above plus an enhanced ID check (like green but slower). People with certain backgrounds fits here.
The red path has everything - metal scanners, xray-scanners, body scanners, grope search, plus a very thorough ID check. Any non-professional contact with any form of extremists voids your access upfront. If you are turned away here, you will be removed from the airport right away.
Oh, and these checks are just after check-in, not at the gate or similar.
Yes, this means that certain people cannot travel by air under any circumstances. That is as it should be.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) --
... the current situation of crotch groping!
Why are there millions of muslims in previously all white countries?
Because white people have greatly reduced the number of babies they have..
From Wikipedia:
Yi Byeong-cheon (Hangeul: , also spelled Lee Byeong-chun), is the veterinary professor at Seoul National University[1] responsible for the 300 million KRW "Toppy" dog cloning program.[2] Yi is a former aide to Hwang Woo-suk, a pioneer in the field with the "Snuppy" clone, who fell from grace after his stem cell research turned out to have been fabricated.[3] Yi is "one of the world's best-known dog cloning experts."[4]
1. "Disgraced scientist says he cloned female dog". MSNBC/Associated Press. 1/7/2007. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
2, Mostrous, Alexi (April 25, 2008). "Seven cloned sniffer dogs named Toppy begin training in South Korea". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
3. Kim, Hyung-Jin (25 April 2008). "Cloned sniffer dogs go on show". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
4. Kim, So-hyun (08-08-2008). "Scandal brews over American owner of cloned puppies". The Korea Herald/Asia News Network. Retrieved 31-08-2010.
Seems a case of Fruad again.
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The thermal-imaging camera captures variations in facial temperature in response to questioning. "When someone is making something up on the spot, brain activity usually changes and you can detect this through the thermal camera," said professor Hassan Ugail, who leads the research.
Dang, i guess the "bad" people will have to just work out stories ahead of time, so they always have an answer ready.
Be seeing you...
Is there anything we can do to turn this around?
We know security is driven by profits, can we have liberties driven by profits?
For example, laptops are allowed on planes for business people. What can we learn from this?
I think we can learn that people with the cash will be able to bypass all the security clearing. Certainly we can already do this by private chartering a plane. Perhaps we can look into lowering the cash needing to do so, so that eventually only the very poor have to undergo various scans.
So, laptop computers, were they originally banned? If so how did business go about influencing having them back? That's the process we need to know more about; corrupting the corruptors.
It a compromise but better to have a plan B than nothing.
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Is there in fact a point here people cant be scared into voluntary submission of their freedoms? I am beginning to think the answer is no.