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"Homeland Security Detects Terrorist Threats by Reading Your Mind"
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Homeland Security Detects Terrorist Threats by Reading Your Mind
Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind.
Most preventive screening looks for explosives or metals that pose a threat. But a new system called MALINTENT turns the old school approach on its head. This Orwellian-sounding machine detects the person — not the device — set to wreak havoc and terror.
MALINTENT, the brainchild of the cutting-edge Human Factors division in Homeland Security's directorate for Science and Technology, searches your body for non-verbal cues that predict whether you mean harm to your fellow passengers.
It has a series of sensors and imagers that read your body temperature, heart rate and respiration for unconscious tells invisible to the naked eye — signals terrorists and criminals may display in advance of an attack.
But this is no polygraph test. Subjects do not get hooked up or strapped down for a careful reading; those sensors do all the work without any actual physical contact. It's like an X-ray for bad intentions.
Currently, all the sensors and equipment are packaged inside a mobile screening laboratory about the size of a trailer or large truck bed, and just last week, Homeland Security put it to a field test in Maryland, scanning 144 mostly unwitting human subjects.
While I'd love to give you the full scoop on the unusual experiment, testing is ongoing and full disclosure would compromise future tests.
But what I can tell you is that the test subjects were average Joes living in the D.C. area who thought they were attending something like a technology expo; in order for the experiment to work effectively and to get the testing subjects to buy in, the cover story had to be convincing.
While the 144 test subjects thought they were merely passing through an entrance way, they actually passed through a series of sensors that screened them for bad intentions.
Homeland Security also selected a group of 23 attendees to be civilian "accomplices" in their test. They were each given a "disruptive device" to carry through the portal — and, unlike the other attendees, were conscious that they were on a mission.
In order to conduct these tests on human subjects, DHS had to meet rigorous safety standards to ensure the screening would not cause any physical or emotional harm.
So here's how it works. When the sensors identify that something is off, they transmit warning data to analysts, who decide whether to flag passengers for further questioning. The next step involves micro-facial scanning, which involves measuring minute muscle movements in the face for clues to mood and intention.
Homeland Security has developed a system to recognize, define and measure seven primary emotions and emotional cues that are reflected in contractions of facial muscles. MALINTENT identifies these emotions and relays the information back to a security screener almost in real-time.
This whole security array — the scanners and screeners who make up the mobile lab — is called "Future Attribute Screening Technology" — or FAST — because it is designed to get passengers through security in two to four minutes, and often faster.
If you're rushed or stressed, you may send out signals of anxiety, but FAST isn't fooled. It's already good enough to tell the difference between a harried traveler and a terrorist. Even if you sweat heavily by nature, FAST won't mistake you for a baddie.
"If you focus on looking at the person, you don't have to worry about detecting the device itself," said Bob Burns, MALINTENT's project leader. And while there are devices out there that look at individual cues, a comprehensive screening device like this has never before been put together.
While FAST's batting average is classified, Undersecretary for Science and Technology Adm. Jay Cohen declared the experiment a "home run."
As cold and inhuman as the electric eye may be, DHS says scanners are unbiased and nonjudgmental. "It does not predict who you are and make a judgment, it only provides an assessment in situations," said Burns. "It analyzes you against baseline stats when you walk in the door, it measures reactions and variations when you approach and go through the portal."
But the testing — and the device itself — are not without their problems. This invasive scanner, which catalogues your vital signs for non-medical reasons, seems like an uninvited doctor's exam and raises many privacy issues.
But DHS says this is not Big Brother. Once you are through the FAST portal, your scrutiny is over and records aren't kept. "Your data is dumped," said Burns. "The information is not maintained — it doesn't track who you are."
DHS is now planning an even wider array of screening technology, including an eye scanner next year and pheromone-reading technology by 2010.
The team will also be adding equipment that reads body movements, called "illustrative and emblem cues." According to Burns, this is achievable because people "move in reaction to what they are thinking, more or less based on the context of the situation."
FAST may also incorporate biological, radiological and explosive detection, but for now the primary focus is on identifying and isolating potential human threats.
And because FAST is a mobile screening laboratory, it could be set up at entrances to stadiums, malls and in airports, making it ever more difficult for terrorists to live and work among us.
Burns noted his team's goal is to "restore a sense of freedom." Once MALINTENT is rolled out in airports, it could give us a future where we can once again wander onto planes with super-sized cosmetics and all the bottles of water we can carry — and most importantly without that sense of foreboding that has haunted Americans since Sept. 11.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
i was planning to kill a rat i saw
but now my plans are ruined!!!! :'(
…hahahahahaha! Propoganda???? Nah. Not in this country. "Any Day Now" Perez will be able to read what I am thinking regarding this post and it isn't pretty! C YA…
SCARY SHIT!!!!! Oh man, means my dad cant get his cuban cigars thru no more lmao..
wow crazy
Re: karencarpenter – Sociopaths don't always experience a heightened body temperature nor a faster heart rate. The simply don't give a shit…Somewhat like my last single release…*clears throat*
big brother is watching
wow,, technology these days..
They don't want to
read my mind, I assure you.
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They tested this device
on Carrot Top and Amy Winehouse
and the machine blew up.
sounds freaky
They tried this machine
on George W. Bush and they
thought the machine had
came unplugged.
They hooked up
Nancy Pelosi to this device
and she thinks she is the Empress
of the Universe who looks like
Angelina Jolie.
Well thanks for just tellin' the terrorists we have so they can get started on way's to defeat it! How was the Gay fest last night buttboy, I firgured you'd still be manning the Glory Hole instead of posting shiz! Oh and what about the topless DJ's, I bet they looked like they four arms each up pressing the play buttons.
Thanks to the patriot act and Bush for protecting us! LMAO You can't get any more INTRUSIVE than this. You must be fucking kidding me.
Just imagine the beautiful future ahead and how this shit is going to expand? Ok for threats, but do you really love her/him? did you pay all your taxes? did you move your money from this account to that account? Did you study? Do you have any illness? Are you lying? Did you go to church? Are you a good person? Are you homosexual? Do you have AIDS? and the list goes on and on and on…
Perfect move! only in the republican mind while an economy is sinking you can enforce and spend millions in this type of tecnology. No doubt is one of Bush's friend the CIO of the consulting firm that was used in actually research and help developed this shit.
If we continue this route as simple as we don't have to worry for this crap. Cause nobody is going to come here or do anything, everybody is going to try to get the fuck out of this nation.
Crazy!
orwell was right!
we don't need no THOUGHT CONTROL
wtf?
is it even reliable?
"the jury finds you guilty of being a terrorist because the machine never lies!"
:|
Re: VivaAlannah – exactly
cool
damn that was long…lol! and i am glad they cant read my mind cause i would be like sex sex sex…i want a cookie…oh icecream…lalalalala…i need to go potty…things of that nature and that would be embarassing haha
please hat probably doesn't even work, just another pathetic attempt to "protect" people
MORE AND MORE RIGHTS ARE TAKEN AWAY FORM AMERICANS EVERYDAY! Freedom is a facade. The two party system is a fraud. Vote Bob Barr or you are feeding the machine. If he gets %10 then they will be "ALLOWED" to be included in the presidential debates next time.
What rules this country and most of the world is more powerful the president. Don't believe any of the corporate media. It is owned by the elitists and 5 companies. THEY WANT YOU TO VOTE FOR OBAMA, but he is another cog in the wheel. We need real change. WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
Hmm, they better test it's effects on the Verichips they plan on implanting into everyone too
Re: RashManly – ha ha ha
dam this government gettin on ma last mothafuckin nerves!
next thing, off to fema camps for our protection lol
I will be fucking RIOTING. This is a gross intrusion on our privacy. No fucking way. The government can fuck themselves with this. I am all for government but once you start fucking scanning my body for "bad intentions", which is fucking impossible to tell, … listen seriously. No. Yea, scan this assholes! Why don't you take your perverted, peeping tom ways and stay the fuck out of my business! People need to be more concerned about this. The government is trying to take control over your life. Are you going to let them because of some silly hate-mongers who think they can bully us around? Fuck, they WON if that's the fucking case. We implement this, the fucking terrorists have won.
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS???
guess i cant take any bud with moi.
maybe i'll just pretend like im doing a sudoku puzzle bc idk about you but im on a fucking mission when i do that shit
Re: ChrisMiss – More and more evidence that the terrorist fairly tale have a second agenda that we are not very aware of. If you are going to be Rioting then wait for me cause I am going to be fucking furious doing the same. People get hypnotized in the Oh so great, we are so smart and don't foresee the consequences of this type of technology being even research. And we don't have explicit laws that protect citizens from this cause it's fucking unbelievable.
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This is the only fucking good thing republicans are good for "IN ENFORCE FACISM".
Uhh all you crazy people thinking it can control and read your mind IT JUST TAKES YOUR FUCKING VITAL SIGNS they can't possibly get a reading of exact thoughts…
Welcome to The New World Order people! Life as you know it is going to get a whole lot worse then you can ever imagine. FEMA camps anyone? Go read Alex Jones' website, look up his video's on You Tube. Educate yourself, because it's the only way we can stop this from happening.
We need to remind everybody that Gov. Palin is the only candidate in the race with executive office experience!!! I think many are voting for Obama based on character!!! The fact of the matter is that If you raise Corporate tax, and you also raise Minimum Wage… what do you think that'll happen??? Specifically small business owners that have a lower margin will have to lay off to be able to compensate for the increase in tax and salary expenses!!!! IT'S INSANE TO VOTE FOR NOBAMA!!!!!————————————————————————————————————————
Also, he wants to raise taxes on Capital Gains…well news flash.. the stock market is in the crapper… Investors are scared to put money back in the market…they have a valid fear of losing their money… so if on top of that.. you tell them that if they happen to invest and make a gain they will get taxed higher…. He's not giving incentives to the investor…He's not giving incentives to corporations…and what good does having to pay lower personal taxes if you don't have an actual job.. because your company let you go…after Obama raised their taxes…————————————————————————————– As you can see Nobama's affects everybody!!! VOTE McCAIN/PALIN 08'!!!!!!
im going to buy an island in the middle of nowhere and live off the land.., whos with me?
What about people that are sociopaths? they don't feel emotion
Re: Nathalie (google Ron Paul!) – yeiiiii but as long as we have toilet paper and soap…I am going to work on my tan indefinetly
WHO THE FUCKING HELL DOES THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY THINK THEY ARE??? Uh, Nineteen Eighty-Four anyone? We'll have fucking thought police on our ass before we can blink - fuck homeland security.
While it might be a some what smart tactic. it could easily be fooled. by someone who is just nervous about their first airplane ride or if it is an actually terriorist they are kinda trained to be relaxed. soooo its just wick'dee wick'dee wack.
>_
what the future holds….im not so sure anymore!?!!
well, i never actually was sure…well whatever
Re: doughbabies – hey where is my tina chen avatar?
It's done… we have now officially lost our freedom. "we'll have a better future and will be able to bring bottled water and make-up"… yeah, there is no sugar coating this crap. I'd much rather leave my water and my makeup at home than to have someone- and I don't care if you DO have a badge- but someone reading my mind. This is bull and I saw it coming. If you allow the government to take away one thing, they'll start taking away everything little by little. Just a note to all you pro-lifers, death penalty-ers, Bush supporters, etc… You can disagree all you want and you have that right… but when you agree to take away one individual or a group's rights, don't think for one second they won't start taking yours. Good luck in the future.
that cool, but just wait till the get them into airports & the thing malfunctions on some poor unsuspecting innocent person whose afriad to fly & havin a bad day… LMAO I can just imagine the security tackeling tazering & interrogating someone over that. hahaha i never want to fly again. & fuck getting on public transportation unless your packin heat cuz some guy might just cut your head off & eat you on the grey hound bus… it happend in canada, I havent slept right in weeks, ever since I watched the You Tube "first person accounts" of the horrible bus incident.
WOW! But what would an eye scanner do?
oh i get thats COOL! Yeah first time i read it i thought they'd be able to read your mind! LOL XD
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Has anyone seen Minority Report??
*rolleyes*
This is really a bit much.
They wouldn't want to read my brain.
Psychos will pass this just like they pass polygraph tests.
That is absolutely terrifying. If you can´t even have the liberty to think freely, what the hell do you have?
There are so many ways this technology can (and, in all likelihood, WILL) be abused.
To be brief: this is bad.
There is no scientific basis for the polygraph. Any dishonest person can pass it. Go to antipolygraph . org. That's why it's not admissible in court. If they are going to start arresting people for terrorist intent based on this test it had better be more reliable than a polygraph. Imagine getting tackled and handcuffed by security because you're angry about something when you walk through this thing.
This is super creepy…Big Brother is here and man he's a creeper.
Wonder what the price tag is on this "Super-Duper-Ultra-Wonder-Probe'?
SO THEN BOTOX WOULD THROW OFF THE FACIAL EXPRESSION SCANNER I GUESS!!
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CURSES… FOILED AGAIN!!!
OUR POOR LITTLE BODIES ARE ZAPPED EVERYWHERE WE GO NOW WITH SOME KIND OF 'LOW LEVEL' OF RADIATION FOR SCANNING PURPOSES!
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AT WHAT POINT DOES BEING SCANNED A HUNDRED TIMES A WEEK WITH 'LOW LEVELS' OF RADIATION BECOME HIGH LEVELS OF RADIATION
After standing in line, how many people WANT TO KILL SOMEONE?! I don't do well with people in general, and I think nasty thoughts a lot. Doesn't mean I intend to act on them. I don't like this machine, kthx.
HA! I know I would set that thing off! It basically detects anger/hostility. But you know what? I THINK about shooting people and blowing shit up all the time, but I just never DO. Being angry at humanity is NOT A CRIME. It's only when someone puts their negative thoughts into action that they are punished, so…what's the point of this technology? It's basically a HUGE waste of money and a MAJOR invasion of privacy. But wasting your money and invading your privacy is what the government does best, right? Fuckers.
This is so wrong
what happens when it reads your mind? do they arest you? is it now illegal to think ? and how do they know once they've arested you if your realy a terrorist or just having a bad day? do they look at your race, your faith, your gender?
and what assurances do we have that they will deleate the information on us after they have obtained it.
The FBI just admited to searching civilian phone lines for phone sex and then recording the conversations for entertainment… its funny but it also shows a total disregard for fundimental rights to privicy
Terrorists are sick and i would like to see them throne in prision for the crimes they have comited ,however, when a society is willing to give up its liberty for securty it deserves neither and will loose both…
they must be watching "fringe"….get walter, peter, and olivia on it right away!