Feds Seek to Identify People by Odor

The Associated Press ^ | DECEMBER 19, 2002 | Jim Krane

[dirtboy]

Add this to the bill that will kill off TIA (and spank the clueless dolts at DARPA). Depending upon how it would be used, this device could easily amount to a warrantless search.

[mhking]

This idea smells fishy....

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[Publius]

A new category of political correctness: People of Odor. Otherwise known as the French.

[boris]

The East German Stazi had a similar program. They stored bottles of "odor" for hundreds or thousands of citizens. I believe they trained dogs to find persons based on their stored "odors".

The claim was that if you stood in one spot for a few minutes on, say, a linoleum floor, they could collect your "odor" and catalog it.

I dunno.

--Boris

[areafiftyone]

ROFLMAO - they should start with the Homeless in New York City. PEEEEWW!!!

[freeeee]

Stasi Museum

"The exhibits are housed in part of the old Stasi (East German secret police) headquarters. About a month after the Berlin Wall came down, East German citizens occupied Stasi buildings here and in other cities to prevent officials from destroying documents. Anyone can apply to see their Stasi file."

"These really made an impression on me. Our guide called them "odor fingerprints". The example he gave was of a doctor being told to wipe a piece of fabric over a patient. The fabric would then be preserved so that if the person disappeared he or she could be tracked by dogs."

Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

[ThatsEnough]

Or POO for short.

[APBaer]

I wouldn't piss in his mouth
if his heart were on fire.

[Desdemona]

Isn't this the purpose of bloodhounds? They're a bargain in comparison, too.

[Lokibob]

I can see it now, you insert your "Homeland Security Card" in the handy slot over the urinal, you are approved, and the lid opens. The sniffer starts and your computer file records the new updated smell.

Taking this a step further, it detects drugs, alcohol, last sexual encounter, medical problems, and cholosteral level. The data is sent to a satellite which beams it down to your implanted chip.

TINFOIL BEANY TIME.

[dirtboy]

The federal agency that created the Internet now challenges scientists to create a detector that could identify people by their unique, genetically determined odor.

Just be sure to keep it away from Ol' Crusty. That would fry even the most hardened circuitry...

[w_over_w]

Excuse me but there are only THREE human scents:

• Fresh out of the shower
• Starting to go
• Your underwear could stand up in the corner

[RooRoobird14]

A-HAH!!I was right!!! I knew this would happen!!

It only took the first four posts on this thread before THE FRENCH were mentioned!!!!!

BWHAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!!!!

[dirtboy]

You left out the fourth scent on the scale:

French...

[sonofatpatcher2]

Looks like we'll be able to track Osama Bin now.

[amused]

LOL.

Headline of the NY Post

"Cheese Eatin Surrender Monkeys Profiled Due to BO"

[freeeee]

Looks like we'll be able to track Osama Bin now.

If Osama, Saddam and every other jihad bad guy showed up and turned themselves in tomorrow, this project would still go forward.

The only thing terrorism has to do with this is its use as a convenient excuse to unleash Big Brother.

This is about control, not security.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Track me by my smell?

Naw! My Mammy told me I smelled like the pure, driven snow...

[w_over_w]

French...

If that's the same scent that burns your eyebrows right off your face . . . don't you have to be dead?