Article - New technology to spot explosives in crowd
Jan 14, 2010 | 2:28 pm
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Article - New technology to spot explosives in crowd
Intelligent Smelling Sensor Networks Can Pick Would-Be Terrorists Out of a Crowd, and Follow Them
Seems promising.
Jan 14, 2010 | 6:44 pm
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The article says it is prone to false positives. That is absolutely deadly in this business.
I didn't quite understand why we'd need the ability to track and locate explosives in a crowd. Shouldn't it be enough to detect their presence? After all, people are inherently serialized when going through screening, one at a time: if the explosives detector spots something, then you have a pretty good idea who to search.
As a result I'm not convinced this will be terribly helpful in practice.
I didn't quite understand why we'd need the ability to track and locate explosives in a crowd. Shouldn't it be enough to detect their presence? After all, people are inherently serialized when going through screening, one at a time: if the explosives detector spots something, then you have a pretty good idea who to search.
As a result I'm not convinced this will be terribly helpful in practice.
Jan 14, 2010 | 6:52 pm
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This sounds doomed to failure like the puffers. I wonder if TSA addressed/would be smart enough to address "maintenance" issues and and do testing in a real environment. Nah .... 
Jan 14, 2010 | 7:15 pm
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Back in the 1960's and possible even earlier the Navy had a device that could sniff the exhaust fumes of a snorkeling submarine from patrol aircraft. I have no idea what the ppm rate was but surely in the preceeding almost 50 years devices could have been invented that could sniff out almost any desire compound.
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Jan 14, 2010 | 7:23 pm
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