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I'm more scared that TSA will find out about it, and I'll have to start dropping my drawers for a full body cavity search as standard airport security screening.
Unfortunately, if it's a suicide bomber with the device surgically implanted odds are good that not even a full body cavity search would work. They better get on the ball with biometric IDs (iris scans, etc.) to greatly reduce the chances.
How are biometric IDs going to help find a hidden bomb??
Not to mention, we already have them and they are easily faked. They are called photos. And once they have some data for iris or whatever on it, you still just copy your data on to the ID (like people copy a photo of themselves on to a fake ID) and it works. Biometrics are not the solution people think they are; and can very easily make things worse.
[2 points]2 years ago by dr1024ReplyEdited 2 years ago by dr1024
They would have to do an iris scan at every boarding gate. The data would not be on the passport, it would be in the international database. There would be no way to fake it.
Iris data would be much harder to fake than fingerprints or photographs.
[1 point]2 years ago by ChipmonkReplyEdited 2 years ago by Chipmonk
Physically faking an real iris is hard, but faking the iris data (which is what they are checking your iris against) is just as easy (if not easier) as faking a photo. It is just digital data, ones and zeros. Think about it. They don’t fake your eye, they put their own eye’s iris on the ID with fake credentials. Nothing changes.
So they don't actually scan the iris at every boarding gate? If not, that seems pretty dumb.
For security's sake you would think they'd go the extra mile.. unless, perhaps, it's more involved than a 15 second procedure. If that is true they need to figure out how to do it faster. When I was younger there used to be an expression, where there's a will there's a way.
[1 point]2 years ago by ChipmonkReplyEdited 2 years ago by Chipmonk
Just three interesting articles I was able to quickly find on the problems of thinking of biometrics as perfect, or better than what we have today. (Note that I'm not against using biometrics, I just think that they have to be used correctly, and there limitations and benefits fully understood.)
The bomb that was in the terrorist didn't even kill his target that was right next to him, and his body took the entire force of the blast, So i'm not afraid.
Link here: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/09/29/dcl.todd.bomb.body.cavity.cnn?iref=videosearch
I hope that link works
That link works.
Good!
Statistically speaking I am far more likely to die from lack of affordable health care, then at the hands of some terrorist. So no, I am not scared.
Silence! I kill you!
Only mildly, and ONLY because I live in the Big Apple, everybody's favorite target. Otherwise I wouldn't blink an eye.
I'm more scared that TSA will find out about it, and I'll have to start dropping my drawers for a full body cavity search as standard airport security screening.
Unfortunately, if it's a suicide bomber with the device surgically implanted odds are good that not even a full body cavity search would work. They better get on the ball with biometric IDs (iris scans, etc.) to greatly reduce the chances.
How are biometric IDs going to help find a hidden bomb??
Not to mention, we already have them and they are easily faked. They are called photos. And once they have some data for iris or whatever on it, you still just copy your data on to the ID (like people copy a photo of themselves on to a fake ID) and it works. Biometrics are not the solution people think they are; and can very easily make things worse.
They would have to do an iris scan at every boarding gate. The data would not be on the passport, it would be in the international database. There would be no way to fake it.
Iris data would be much harder to fake than fingerprints or photographs.
Physically faking an real iris is hard, but faking the iris data (which is what they are checking your iris against) is just as easy (if not easier) as faking a photo. It is just digital data, ones and zeros. Think about it. They don’t fake your eye, they put their own eye’s iris on the ID with fake credentials. Nothing changes.
So they don't actually scan the iris at every boarding gate? If not, that seems pretty dumb.
For security's sake you would think they'd go the extra mile.. unless, perhaps, it's more involved than a 15 second procedure. If that is true they need to figure out how to do it faster. When I was younger there used to be an expression, where there's a will there's a way.
Just three interesting articles I was able to quickly find on the problems of thinking of biometrics as perfect, or better than what we have today. (Note that I'm not against using biometrics, I just think that they have to be used correctly, and there limitations and benefits fully understood.)
http://techliberation.com/2008/11/12/border-biometrics-zero-benefit/
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Cracking-your-Fingers.aspx
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9808.html#biometrics
I see what you mean. In fact, just following up on the comments to the articles you left show how easy it is to fake some of the data.
Body Cavity bombs aren't surgically implanted - there hidden in something that the Cnn people couldn't mention on TV.
What if they were surgically implanted?
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[-3 points] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyNaw. If it happens, well, it happens. C'est la vie.
I'm actually quite content with what I've done with my life right now and wouldn't mind it too much if I bit the dust.
The bomb that was in the terrorist didn't even kill his target that was right next to him, and his body took the entire force of the blast, So i'm not afraid.
'Sounds messy. XD