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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!
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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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'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.
At airport prices you will not safe very much.
Or, put another way, except for most terrorists. After all, if they had even a modicum of guilt, they wouldn't commit such atrocities. Therefore, without even looking at this technology, we can fairly definitively state that it cannot possibly be effective at preventing terrorist attacks of any sort.
That won't stop the TSA from spending billions of dollars to buy them and install them in airports across the country, though, and this is why our government is going broke. Want to shave of 8.1 billion dollars of ugly pork barrel spending? Dismantle the TSA.
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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?
So, you're that person in the US taking the train? Don't you know that is reminiscent of European style socialism, you unpatriotic individual, you.
Yes, this means that certain people cannot travel by air under any circumstances. That is as it should be.
Just as long as you are willing to be one of those people.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
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.
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