Behavioral screening — the future of airport security?
Worrying about what you are wearing or carrying on the plane may soon be a thing of the past.
From CNN.com:
We are seeing a needed paradigm shift when it comes to security,” says Omer Laviv, CEO of ATHENA GS3, an Israeli-based security company.
“This ‘brain-fingerprinting,’ or technology which checks for behavioral intent, is much more developed than we think.”
Several Israeli-based technology companies are developing detection systems that pick up signs of emotional strain, a psychological red flag that a passenger may intend to commit an act of terror. Speedier and less intrusive than metal detectors, these systems may eventually restore some efficiency to the airplane boarding process.
One firm, WeCU (pronounced “We See You”) Technologies, employs a combination of infra-red technology, remote sensors and imagers, and flashing of subliminal images, such as a photo of Osama bin Laden. Developers say the combination of these technologies can detect a person’s reaction to certain stimuli by reading body temperature, heart rate and respiration, signals a terrorist unwittingly emits before he plans to commit an attack.
Be calm and think good thoughts as you pass through security.
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“We are seeing a needed paradigm shift when it comes to security”
Locked cockpit doors?
So, we’re gonna start throwing people that are afraid to fly into Guantanamo Bay now?
Oh, yeah, that’s exactly what people with a phobia of flying need; to be dragged off by security and put through the ringer.
That’ll be a whole lot of self-hypnosis ebooks on iPods at airports soon, then.
I’ll go old-school… mantras like ‘Tenser said the tensor” and “Fear is the mindkiller” should do the job. For a while.
Oh Hell. Seriously, if this is the best ideas we have in fighting terrorism–we’re more likely to kill ourselves at this point.
So, people who tense up in response to subliminal images of the most notorious terrorist mastermind of our time… will be targeted as probable terrorists?
Um, is it weird that I always feel guilty whenever I’m around authority figures? Like I could be talking to a policeman, as a witness to something that I clearly had nothing to do with, and I’d still be feeling guilty.
Plus I ALWAYS get “randomly” chosen and frisked as I leave the UK (conversely, my Dad always gets frisked in the US, whereas I’ve never had any problems over there when I’ve visited). Does this mean I’m going to be picked by a machine for a Special Frisk just because I’m paranoid?
We need laws to protect our thoughts now.
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