Originally Posted by
InkUnderNails
The technology sounds feasible, and if effective it would eliminate the perceived need for much of the personally invasive methodology currently in use.
Nonetheless, I still have great difficulty reconciling two things. First is this quote from the article:
The second is this one from another source:
It is impossible to make both of them applicable at the same time.
Actually, it’s not all that hard. It’s called “programming”, which the device, when available, will require. My guess, since the device is not ready for production, is that it is going to require a computer to interpret its return from the targets / patients / passengers. Computers can be programed to screen out unwanted information. TSA would have no interest in what you had for breakfast, but would be more interested in if you had been in contact with… let’s say SEMTEX, or RDX.