Pentagon System Hopes to Identify Walks

Pentagon system hopes to identify walks<< Pentagon anti-terror surveillance system hopes to identify people by the way they walk

By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Watch your step! The Pentagon is developing a radar-based device that can identify people by the way they walk, for use in a new antiterrorist surveillance system.

Operating on the theory that an individual's walk is as unique as a signature, the Pentagon has financed a research project at the Georgia Institute of Technology that has been 80 to 95 percent successful in identifying people.

If the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, orders a prototype, the individual ``gait signatures'' of people could become part of the data to be linked together in a vast surveillance system the Pentagon agency calls Total Information Awareness.

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Sounds like we need John Cleese to head this up. It sounds like the Ministry of Funny Walks.

In all seriousness though it is more than a little scary.

Here we go!

This doesn't need much identification

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Wow, i never knew he was that flexible.

and, watching people walk? are we that desperate?

Dave

Yet again, Estragon thanks the merciful heavens that he's not a US taxpayer!
Watch out for one-legged terrorists.

Such memories, Net-C: I almost fell off my chair when I saw that, and recalled the sketch.

Actually, your style of walk is the easiest and most reliable way of identifying you. That's one of the first patterns you recognize when you spot a friend from a long distance away.

Funnily enough, Byrd, when one reads the memoirs of the great stage actors, it's surprising how often they say that"getting the walk right" is their first step in shaping a characterisation.

That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. How much you wanna bet it has an error margin of atleast 50%?

You mean they can arrest your left leg but the right gets away OJ style?