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Airport Security: Thermal Lie-Detectors, Cloned Sniffer Dogs

Posted by Soulskill on from the with-liberty-and-strip-searches-for-all dept.

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."

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  1. Oh, god... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please don't give the TSA any ideas!

    1. Re:Oh, god... by durrr · · Score: 5, Funny

      Looks too efficient for TSA, their dream is a luggage shredder instead of a x-ray scanner, and a wipeout style obstacle course(that you have to run naked, with live streams to the public internet filming it all) with blaring sirens and powertripping functionaries with bullwhips lining the course to drive the herds onwards.
      Contracted at a cost of $12 billions, annually.

  2. Misleading Summary by mutherhacker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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

  3. Putting neon on the security theater. by The+Archon+V2.0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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!