TSA funding airport mind-reading scanners

[cory777]

Source: Rawstory

Amid the media furor over the attempted Christmas Day attacks and a renewed political focus on enhancing airport security, attention is turning to a technological advancement that will have civil rights activists -- or, for that matter, anyone with a secret --seriously worried: Mind-reading machines.

"As far-fetched as that sounds, systems that aim to get inside an evildoer's head are among the proposals floated by security experts thinking beyond the X-ray machines and metal detectors used on millions of passengers and bags each year," AP's Michael Tarm reports.

Tarm focuses on an Israeli company called WeCU Technologies (as in "we see you"), which is building a system that would turn airport waiting areas into arenas for Pavlovian behavioral tests:

The system ... projects images onto airport screens, such as symbols associated with a certain terrorist group or some other image only a would-be terrorist would recognize, company CEO Ehud Givon said.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/2010/01/tsa-funding-airport-mindreading/

[rantormusing]

1. More tax money wasted

Given to some private company that couldn't organize a paper bag lunch, not to mention a security machine/program.


Is it time to stop paying taxes yet?


Is US-VISIT still around?

[frog92969]

2. Because lie detectors have such an impressive history

:wtf:

[thecrow]

3. This is so bizarre

I have no words.

[Reform]

4. we are so past 1984

i can't believe what this planet is coming to

[Downwinder]

5. Air travel is just so much fun these days. Ought to put people to sleep,

load them in the cargo bin like logs, and wake them up at the destination. Probably wouldn't lose any more people than they do bags.

[truthisfreedom]

6. Wow. So the only safe thing to do is keep your eyes closed.

Of course, blind terrorists would become all the rage.

[Suji to Seoul]

7. What will be on my mind in the airport

1: These TSA Nazi shitstains need to get beaten up for having a job that requires a single digit IQ and a God complex.

2: I wonder if my stewardesses will be hot.

3: DAMN!!! LOOK AT HER!!! I need to buy her a drink after I get through this Nazi shit that. . .oh, come on. . .she's a 82 year old grandmother! She's older than George Burns!!!

4: Man. . .this song my iPod is the bomb!!! Oops. . .wrong word.

5: I'm glad my friend Jack isn't here, or else I would say "Hi Jack!!!"

6: How do they stuff so much shit into those ugly TSA uniforms?

7: My tax money is going for this???

8: I wonder if they will think my Yarmulkah is something dangerous!


WTF!!! 1984??? Mind reading? Calling Miss Cleo!!!

[The Animator]

8. Call me now for yur free terra card readin'

This is half the reason I'd prefer to travel by train when possible.

[Tanelorn]

12. There's an idea

What happened to all those 1970's movies about runaway trains,
doomed cities and hot costars. 

[groundloop]

9. That story wasn't supposed to be printed yet !!!!!!

It was supposed to come out 4/1/2010.

[MystiqueLady]

10. Why go to that effort? Hire Psychics/Mediums!

Hey, that could be my new carerr field! I am a medium (and a psychic) I think the TSA should have a paranormal division ready -- Sounds like my sort of job.

[GeorgeGist]

11. That would require terrorists to design the machines.

[TheWatcher]

13. "JUST KEEP ME SAFE!!!!11111"

[The abyss]

14. Get your goddamn eyeballs

off my daughter’s tits!


Wow – that wouldn’t have been the thought behind one of these people striking out on any of these resent alarms?

Nah – I’m sure they were worried about the kiss & tell banditos talking shop with the panty bomber!

All is well

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[SpartanDem]

15. Ummm I read the AP story TSA isn't even mentioned in it

it only talks about some concepts. What is rawstory smoking?


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-airport-security-the-future,0,7761083,full.story

[krabigirl]

16. Is this from the Onion?!>!

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[chrisa]

18. lol. Epic fail (by that company).

I expected this to be an "Onion" story. I can't believe that company spent money on such a stupid project.

[Scurrilous]

19. "Homeland Security officials have long been keen on Israeli counter-terror technologies.."

In Israel, racial profiling doesn't warrant debate, or apologies

<snip>

"A couple of months ago, I toured the IDF Ground Forces Command's substances laboratory, a nondescript cluster of prefabricated huts at the Tel Hashomer army base near Tel Aviv, which serves as Israel's brain-trust for every type of explosive used by armies and terrorists in the Middle East.

The lab's commander, Lt. Col. Eran Tuval, a goateed officer-scientist with a mercurial temperment, ran around the courtyard, which was littered with leftover Qassam rockets and ominously labeled packages, setting off combustions with a cigarette lighter.

One fact he tried to impress upon me was the ease with which basic household items can be adapted into deadly devices. For example two bottles of liquid, one of them containing the hair dye hydrogen peroxide, can blow up a commercial airliner.

So why, I asked, are we still allowed to board airplanes at Ben-Gurion International Airport with bottles and tubes of liquid brought from home, while in Heathrow or JFK they confiscate our face cream and toothpaste?

"Oh, that's simple," he answered matter of factly. "We use racial profiling, they don't."

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