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[Scott Elcomb]

On 9/24/07, JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
[...]
> > And why all the worry about airports?
>
> Because people see the big flashy security doodads at the airport and think
> 'wow, they're really doing something about this terrorism thing'.

Here's a new "flashy doodad," but probably not the same flashy you
were thinking of - this one's all about subliminal data mining.

A choice quote from
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/mind_reading :

"SSRM Tek is presented to a subject as an innocent computer game that
flashes subliminal images across the screen -- like pictures of Osama
bin Laden or the World Trade Center. The "player" -- a traveler at an
airport screening line, for example -- presses a button in response to
the images, without consciously registering what he or she is looking
at. The terrorist's response to the scrambled image involuntarily
differs from the innocent person's, according to the theory."

-- 
  Scott Elcomb
  http://www.psema4.com/
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