Mind-reading systems could change air security

Mind-reading systems could change air security

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CHICAGO – A would-be terrorist tries to board a plane, bent on mass murder. As he walks through a security checkpoint, fidgeting and glancing around, a network of high-tech machines analyzes his body language and reads his mind.

Screeners pull him aside.

Tragedy is averted.

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.

On Thursday, in the wake of the Christmas Day bombing attempt over Detr

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The ideas that have been offered by security experts for staying one step ahead include highly sophisticated sensors, more intensive interrogations of travelers by screeners trained in human behavior, and a lifting of the U.S. prohibitions against profiling.

Some of the more unusual ideas are already being tested. Some aren't being given any serious consideration. Many raise troubling questions about civil liberties. All are costly.

"Regulators need to accept that the current approach is outdated," said Philip Baum, editor of the London-based magazine Aviation Security International. "It may have responded to the threats of the 1960s, but it doesn't respond to the threats of the 21st century."

Here's a look at some of the ideas that could shape the future of airline security:


~~~Okay, now they're gonna probe our THOUGHTS?

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First they want to scan you so they can see your goodies then they want to probe your mind. The thought police will have arrived, when will it be a capital crime to have an un-citizen like thought? The final step in the control matrix?

Either that or the ultimate equipment for a player

Wave it in guys, it's too late. GAME OVER

Edit: Talk about it early and plant the seed, then blow up a few more planes and bingo. Increased security measures for your safety and well being citizen, form an orderly queue please ask you walk into the grinder.

[edit on 9-1-2010 by Bunker or Bust]

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