Terrorist 'pre-crime' detector field tested in United States

Nature News ^ | 27 May 2011 | Sharon Weinberger

[neverdem]

Screening system aims to pinpoint passengers with malicious intentions.

Planning a sojourn in the northeastern United States? You could soon be taking part in a novel security programme that can supposedly 'sense' whether you are planning to commit a crime.

Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST), a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) programme designed to spot people who are intending to commit a terrorist act, has in the past few months completed its first round of field tests at an undisclosed location in the northeast, Nature has learned.

Like a lie detector, FAST measures a variety of physiological indicators, ranging from heart rate to the steadiness of a person's gaze, to judge a subject's state of mind. But there are major differences from the polygraph. FAST relies on non-contact sensors, so it can measure indicators as someone walks through a corridor at an airport, and it does not depend on active questioning of the subject.

The tactic has drawn comparisons with the science-fiction concept of 'pre-crime', popularized by the film Minority Report, in which security services can detect someone's intention to commit a crime. Unlike the system in the film, FAST does not rely on a trio of human mutants who can see the future. But the programme has attracted copious criticism from researchers who question the science behind it (see Airport security: Intent to deceive?).

From fiction to fact

So far, FAST has only been tested in the lab, so successful field tests could lend some much-needed data to support the technology. "It is encouraging to see an effort to develop a real empirical base for new technologies before any policy commitments are made," says Tom Ormerod, a psychologist in the Investigative Expertise Unit at Lancaster University, UK. Such testing, he adds, could lay the groundwork for a more...

[Darkwolf377]

I have a cheaper solution. Any white Christian man = guilty of crimes against the state. Don’t need no newfangled gizmo for that.

Punishment is revocation of all his income and assets, to be given to The Pewwwrrrrr.

[savagesusie]

Exactly.

But many were conned by the public schools which were redesigned into a conditioning brainwashing system for obamabot-type thinkers by the socialist Dewey. Parents were so trusting of those officials to “educate” students instead of brainwashing them into believing up is down and other non-sensical cr*p....

It was not believing how evil and devious people are especially when they have POWER. Power corrupts....as Lord Acton said and it has been proven over and over and over but we are not being taught Truth and history for the last 80 years in schools. AND the media and the PRESS is all propaganda for socialists trying to create dysfunctional hedonists who don’t pay attention to what government is doing. The press even lied and destroy McCarthy back in the early 50’s along with the communist plants in Congress and the Senate and NYT. (Blacklisted)

There is no Truth out there and people thought we had watch dogs—the press—but they were licking the b*tt of Stalin and their communist friends.

[savagesusie]

The corruption started in the courts and the press. The socialists had complete control of the press by the 30’s and Dewey took socialist control of the school system. With those two institutions it was simply time to corrupt and dumb down the masses and push out propaganda and destroy anyone who got in their way....McCarthy fell hard when he tried to point out the infiltration. The communist control of the press did him in (Blacklisted)...All the media did was repeat the lies over and over.....it worked...like Stalin and Hitler said-—repeat the big lie over and over and it becomes the truth.

The press would not disclose the corruption and communist infiltration—they hid it.....Just a few uncorrupted people would surface now and then...but they would all be assasinated or destroyed somehow if they got in the way.

Whittaker Chambers testified against the communists and he was vilified in the press and made most people think he was lying and evil....All the time he was telling the truth but the press ridiculed him and belittled his looks, etc. to destroy his credibility to make Hiss look like an upstanding citizen rather than the filthy communist spy that he was.

Propaganda existed in only Germany and Russia NEVER in the US—such a FREE country.....Right....as they were pumping in cognitive dissonance into our children’s head and destroying anyone who got in their way. Very few exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes was the start of tyranny in our laws. He transformed our system into one of moral relativism rather than on of Universal Law based on Natural Law Theory and God’s Laws. Our laws no longer were constitutional—just arbitrary made-up laws not based on Natural Law Theory (Common sense and rational law.)

[Hiryusan]

Reminds me of(from a book done by Monty Python some 30 years ago)......

LLANGUIDORF (sp?)

The Welsh art of self defense

Learn to attack your attacker before he thinks of attacking you.

[rarestia]

It’s called PROFILING... yet they’re too lazy to train humans to do it, so they’re going to profile everyone whether they like it or not. That is, of course, until some groups start calling for exceptions and exemptions. I mean, the Muzzies already get a pass from pat downs, why shouldn’t they get a pass from this system, right?

Right?

[grey_whiskers]

Much easier to evict all non-citizen Muslims, and install bugs and hidden cameras in every Mosque in the country.

What? Unconstitutional? But that...CAN'T BE! It's a "living, breathing" document, you know.

...these *ssholes have absolutely NO IDEA what kind of power they are handing to Madame President. All she has to do is appoint Ann Coulter to be Secretary of Homeland Security, and voilà! No more Gramsci!

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Much easier to evict all non-citizen Muslims, and install bugs and hidden cameras in every Mosque in the country.

What? Unconstitutional? But that...CAN'T BE! It's a "living, breathing" document, you know.

...these *ssholes have absolutely NO IDEA what kind of power they are handing to Madame President. All she has to do is appoint Ann Coulter to be Secretary of Homeland Security, and voilà! No more Gramsci!

Cheers!

[LibLieSlayer]

Minority Report... pre crime... it is coming.

LLS

[NewHampshireDuo]

<1>Hell I just don’t understand why they don’t profile.

Because profiling works, it doesn't terrorize the innocent and it doesn't involve huge cash outlays to favored companies and federal employees. Like the scanners, this won't work either but it will further harass the innocent. That's what they want. Security has nothing to do with it.

[mewykwistmas]

“Sounds like total BS to me.

I could have heartburn and be stressed-out over my business trip and this bogus technology would probably identify me as a terrorist. Just another excuse to harass you for no reason.”

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Uh, huh comrade. Tell that to the SWAT team, you have a second or two so choose your word carefully.

[mvpel]

The WHOLE POINT of this software system is to PROFILE, and I’m surprised that people don’t seem to realize that.

They’re just trying to take the subjective human factor out of the process of profiling because of their intense addiction to political correctness and aversion to lawsuits by Muslims who think they have a right to joke about bombs and terrorism in Arabic while flying.

If this system works, and can allow them to focus their sexual assault and electronic strip-searching on people who actually have malicious intent, rather than teenage girls, isn’t that a GOOD thing?

[SaraJohnson]

In the hands of the brilliant TSA agents employed by Homeland inSecurity, what could possibly go wrong?

[phockthis]

sfl

[Gideon7]

The gizmo has non contact sensors for checking the heart rate, the movement of the pupil, and the dialation of the iris?

It sounds like the Voight-Kampf machine from Blade Runner.

[Fitzy_888]

If your stance has a sunken chests, you drag your feet and your hands in your pocket. Possibly, your even playing pocket pool while looking at someone. FAST will quickly identify you as no threat, your likely a Democrat.

[Candor7]

As for where precisely FAST is being tested, that for now remains a closely guarded secret. The DHS says that although the first round was completed at the end of March, more testing is in the works, and the agency is concerned that letting people know where the tests are taking place could affect the outcome. "I can tell you that it is not an airport, but it is a large venue that is a suitable substitute for an operational setting," says Verrico. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This is just liberal fascism.The Israelis do not need it, they use hunan beings who know how to question suspects and observe them. Their system works. Is it not much easier to train humans like the Israelis do? Why the drive for a machine to do it, at 70% success with false positives of more than 30%. We do have a Constitution which somewhat guarantees freedom from unreasonable searhces and seizure, the 4th amendment. Even if the machine was working at 100% success, it would still violate the 4th amendment as being unreasonable to those who "pass" the FAST test.WHY? Machines break and malfunction, always.They slow travel down, they are used to CONTROL people and their movement, just as high fuel prices are controlling peoples travel now.

I prefer the Israeli system of security, staffed and applied by well trained human beings who are reasonable.

FAST is SLOW.Thats why DHS likes it as a form of population control.

This crap should not even be funded with our tax dollars.

Innocent Until Proven guilty? Bye, bye.

[Lets Roll NOW]

I have a solution.

Muslim Airlines, fly your own damn plane until you can play nice.

[1010RD]

With a bit of help from those other generations, no?

[Candor7]

Sounds good to me. And we can pirate a few of theirs too, plant a few bombs, etc, return the favors they have bestowed on us.,,,,,reciprocity

[Nebr FAL owner]

Correction: The ghost of Comrade Beria is green with envy he was the head of the NVVD/KGB.