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Mind-reading technology in airports

Kase Taishuu

14:56 / 18.08.02

sounded hopelessly far-fetched to me too, but it was news on the washington times, so might give it a chance. Basically, the equipment being developed by nasa would receive heart-beats and brain-wave patterns and this way try to determine who might be a terrorist or not. ^~ Is that feasible? Is there any privacy concern (I mean, come on, is nothing sacred?) I've noticed a mind-control thread in the Creation forum, so thought you guys might be interested.

(as of me, that scares me as hell right now.)

netbanshee

18:04 / 18.08.02

I'm wondering what the calculated discrepancy is between those nervous of flying and those plotting to make a plane into a fuel-air bomb? Guess it may a starting point to review or locate suspicious passengers. That coupled with face recognition may make these types of tools somewhat effective.

vozhd

20:02 / 19.08.02

i'd have to wonder what the baseline would be for the brain-waves of a terrorist...unless they catch an actual terrorist in the act of going onto a plane s/he thinks s/he'll make it onto and reading the waves at the same time, how would they get a print of the "Terrorist brainwaves"? Unless they're just going by nervousness, which wouldn't work hardly at all since there would be people nervous about how nervous they appear to the brainscan, etc.

Kase Taishuu

21:57 / 19.08.02

vozhd: that's my question too - how much can you tell based on brain-wave patterns, and if that's enough to tell terrorists from law-abiding citizens scared of planes, someone pissed off with something out of their private lives, or a novelist having subversive ideas for a plot, for instance.

Also, assuming the thing actually works, what else it can be used to determine and the potential applications thereof. ^~

Moth

01:35 / 20.08.02

right. so NASA is going to develop this.

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/flat_iss_010617.html

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