This is mildly interesting, although there seem to be more than a few pitfalls in the theory. Government agencies want to be able to identify skeletons (those in living humans, that is) from a distance of 50 meters (a meter is about the same as a yard, by the way), but that is proving to [...]
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A little bit of news this sunny morning; – Norway’s forces in Afghanistan are lacking essentials in IED detection and removal. An investigation into the state of equipment is afoot after several Norwegian soldiers were killed by a bomb. The country has seen its share of islamist terror-drama the last couple of weeks, since a [...]
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Pretty interesting paper for those more inclined to be fascinated by scientific studies of security related stuff. The whole paper costs a few bucks to download, but it’s actually worth it. Here’s part of the abstract; “This paper describes a series of linear and nonlinear pseudocoloring maps designed and applied to single energy X-ray luggage [...]
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“Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques”, a.k.a. SPOT has been an effort by the TSA to profile passengers through observation alone. Now, before you start screaming blue murder, we’re not talking about the so-called “racial profiling” here – race has nothing to do with it, and if you think it does, go read something [...]
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Janet Napolitano, the US Secretary of Homeland Security is holding a “Live WebCast” over at the CFR, or the Counsil on Foreign Relations. The CFR is a think tank of sorts that deals with everything from beginning to end of international policy and politics. In their own words; The Council on Foreign Relations is an [...]
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