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Insanity knows no bounds. They're talking about putting surveillance cameras on EU planes with software that does, for want of a better term, anxiety profiling to identify trouble-makers and terrorists who could cause problems on the plane. Yeah, that's going to work. No one has anxiety, sweats, is nervous, whatever while flying.
Now here's the best part: they're talking about expanding it to so that there is a camera INSTALLED IN THE BACK OF EVERY SEAT FACING YOU. You would be under surveillance all the time while on the damn plane. And if they think that you're a threat, they can use the taser bracelet to zap you into submission.
A scientist replied that he installed a system not unlike what is proposed in the building that his labs are in that tracks peoples movement throughout the building. In this controlled environment, he gets about 70% accuracy. This is with known lighting patterns, largely the same people over an extended period of time, etc. A plane is a pretty chaotic environment when you think about it: the light changes as the plane banks and passes near/through clouds, or someone turns the light on or off over their seat. Not to mention that you only see the same people on one flight, next flight is a new set of people, all dressed differently, all with different facial characteristics.
I don't think there's any way this will take off, pun partially intended. But if it does, I'm going to carry a few things if I fly in Europe. First, a 3x5" card with the airline's logo on it that says "out of order" and a roll of Scotch tape. Second, a pair of Groucho glasses and a World War II kamikaze headband. Third, play musical chairs with your row mates every hour.
Write to me in Gitmo, K? Thnks.
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14013-inflight-surveillance-could-foil-terrorists-in-the-sky.html
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/30/1333210
Now here's the best part: they're talking about expanding it to so that there is a camera INSTALLED IN THE BACK OF EVERY SEAT FACING YOU. You would be under surveillance all the time while on the damn plane. And if they think that you're a threat, they can use the taser bracelet to zap you into submission.
A scientist replied that he installed a system not unlike what is proposed in the building that his labs are in that tracks peoples movement throughout the building. In this controlled environment, he gets about 70% accuracy. This is with known lighting patterns, largely the same people over an extended period of time, etc. A plane is a pretty chaotic environment when you think about it: the light changes as the plane banks and passes near/through clouds, or someone turns the light on or off over their seat. Not to mention that you only see the same people on one flight, next flight is a new set of people, all dressed differently, all with different facial characteristics.
I don't think there's any way this will take off, pun partially intended. But if it does, I'm going to carry a few things if I fly in Europe. First, a 3x5" card with the airline's logo on it that says "out of order" and a roll of Scotch tape. Second, a pair of Groucho glasses and a World War II kamikaze headband. Third, play musical chairs with your row mates every hour.
Write to me in Gitmo, K? Thnks.
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14013-inflight-surveillance-could-foil-terrorists-in-the-sky.html
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/30/1333210
