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Introduce hoops at the gates and the sheeple would jump through 'em quicksmart.
No questions asked.
Just .."what? jump through the hoop..? yessir..! Just don't accuse me of being a terrorist pleeeease..!" |
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| Lee wrote: | Introduce hoops at the gates and the sheeple would jump through 'em quicksmart.
No questions asked.
Just .."what? jump through the hoop..? yessir..! Just don't accuse me of being a terrorist pleeeease..!" |
Haven't we already been doing this for some time? Walk-through metal detectors are just that.
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| Quote: | Facial recognition is same as tossing a coin
After all the rhetoric about securing our borders, the Home Office has now announced its intent significantly to weaken passport control in the UK. Starting this summer, border guards will gradually be replaced at UK airports by machines performing automatic facial recognition, comparing digital photographs to the data stored on passport chips.
Four years ago, the Home Office ran biometric enrolment trials in Glasgow, Newcastle and Leicester. The trials revealed plainly the fallibility of state-of-the-art biometric authentication. The worst performing biometric technology was facial recognition, which failed 31% of the time for able-bodied participants and a farcical 52% of the time for disabled participants. Problems were also encountered with the elderly, and the system did not cope well with changes to appearances.
Meanwhile, cryptographic researchers working with NO2ID have demonstrated the ability to clone UK passport chips remotely, without even removing passports from the sealed packaging in which they are delivered to recipients. Now all that will stand between imposters with cloned passports and entry to Britain will be a flawed authentication system that performs no better than tossing a coin.
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The government is clearly keen to save money. There are much better savings to be made than firing the border guards at airports.
Geraint Bevan, NO2ID Scotland, Glasgow.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/letters/display.var.2229088.0.faci al_recognition_is_same_as_tossing_coin.php |
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| telecasterisation wrote: | | Lee wrote: | Introduce hoops at the gates and the sheeple would jump through 'em quicksmart.
No questions asked.
Just .."what? jump through the hoop..? yessir..! Just don't accuse me of being a terrorist pleeeease..!" |
Haven't we already been doing this for some time? Walk-through metal detectors are just that. |
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Are you suggesting that walk-through metal detectors are hoops?
I didn't say there isn't or has never been security measures or a need for it at airports.
I was merely commenting on how intrusive and quite frankly, easily hacked technology is being introduced with greater and greater speed and everyone is just going along with it.
To equate a walk-through metal detector with fingerprint,face and Iris scanning technology would seem rather naive.
It's a bit like comparing a padlock with a multi-digit entry-code system.
In the aftermath of the Glasgow "terror incident" last year I interviewed the neighbour of a connected suspect on Ramilies Rd in Liverpool about what she thought about the validity of liberty being eroded in the name of security.
She said she would rather carry around an ID card than be suspected of carrying a bomb.
It's that level of unquestioning acceptance that I was originally referring to. |
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