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Old Jan 8, 2010 | 4:57 am
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Originally Posted by msv
Sure would be interesting to know what people are thinking before flying!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100108/...ity_the_future
The criminalization of thought will be expanding if the paranoid Chicken Littles of the world get their way. Might as well declare the Bill of Rights dead?

People are free to continue to believe in the superstition of profiling -- including on the basis of biometric indicators -- as an "effective" security measure, but what they are not freely acknowledging is that false positives will be a major problem, will create more haystacks in which to lose needles and will -- like has already been the case even with polygraphs -- still be evaded.

As usual, there is always some party or another interested in selling expensive "servicing" equipment and sign up servicing and training contracts. Wasting money in the name of "security" seems ever more routine.
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