Have your skeleton scanned and be safe from terrorists and sex offenders! W00t!

[thewayne]

It's easy to change your face with plastic surgery. It's possible to mutilate your fingerprints. It's much more difficult to alter your skeleton. It's rather personal to you: breaks, surgical screws, bone density and geometry. So someone with little regard to privacy and invasiveness decides that this would be a great way to identify terrorists!

Now we just have to get the terrorists to submit to body scans!

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/08/skeletal_identi.html

http://www.physorg.com/news201454875.html

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/24/1221259/Skeletal-Identification

Comments

[silveradept]

No, it's not the terrorists that will have body scans, it will be everyone! Thanks to our standard scanning technologies, we'll be able to covertly capture and index everyone's skeletal image and then use it for whatever purposes we want. You're thinking too small.