more on The Telegraph: Passengers' chat will be recorded to foil hijackers

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () chrome vortex com>
Date: September 11, 2006 2:19:57 PM JST
To: dave () farber net
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Subject: Re: [IP] The Telegraph: Passengers' chat will be recorded to  
foil hijackers


Dave,

The technical term for this approach to contract work is
"anything for a buck."

--Lauren--
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> From: bobr () bobrosenberg phoenix az us
> Date: September 10, 2006 9:27:35 PM PDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: The Telegraph: Passengers' chat will be recorded to foil
> hijackers
>
> Dave
>
> Perhaps for IP.
>
> Do they honestly believe we will stand for this?
>
> Bob Rosenberg
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>   Passengers' chat will be recorded to foil hijackers
> By David Millward, Transport Correspondent
> (Filed: 11/09/2006)
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/11/
> nplanes11.xml
>
> Air passengers could have their conversations and movements monitored
> as work
> intensifies to design the terrorist-proof aeroplane.
>
> Researchers in Britain and Europe are looking at technology that
> would see a
> comprehensive network of microphones and cameras installed throughout
> the aircraft,
> including the lavatory, which would be linked to a computer.
>
> This computer would be "trained" to pick up suspicious behaviour,
> said Catherine
> Neary, of Bae Systems, one of the British participants in a £24
> million European
> Union project Safety of Aircraft in Future European Environment.
> advertisement
>
> "It would pick passengers who are behaving oddly or in an unruly
> manner," she said.
> "They may appear nervous, or could be getting up while the plane is
> taxiing. If
> someone looks as if they are praying, the microphones would be able
> to tell if they
> were by picking up key words."
>
> Eventually, the computer would be programmed to understand a variety
> of languages.
>
> "Passengers are not being snooped on by humans, but by machines which
> will process
> the data, which would not be stored after the flight unless there is
> an incident,"
> she said.
>
> "There are likely to be cameras and microphones in the toilet,
> because that is where
> terrorists go to assemble bombs." The camera could also be trained to
> detect
> seemingly harmless items being left in aircraft lavatories that could
> later be
> assembled to make a lethal device.
>
> "If people know they will be safer, they will be happy to accept the
> sensors, but we
> are considering the legal implications of this."
>
> Bae Systems is co-operating with Reading University on the project
> designed to make
> the aircraft as secure as possible. "We are concentrating on onboard
> threat
> protection," said James Ferryman, a lecturer in computer science.
>
> "We would be looking at ways in which people behave which would give
> rise to
> suspicion. It is a challenge to distinguish between situations – such
> as two
> children play fighting or someone being attacked."
>
> The aviation industry is monitoring the project closely. ''We are
> always looking at
> new initiatives that would enhance security," a British Airways
> spokesman said. "BA
> already has CCTV which monitors activity outside the reinforced
> cockpit door. But we
> believe it is robust ground security which is the key to safety in
> the air."
>
> Even before the aircraft takes off, passengers could be swept with an
> "electric
> nose" a hand-held device which could tell if they had had any contact
> with
> explosives.
>
> Other initiatives include sophisticated biometric cameras at the
check-in desk and
> departure gate. By comparing the iris, it could check that the
> passenger presenting
> him or herself at the airport was the one boarding the aircraft.
>
> Work is already in hand to examine putting electronic chips on
> luggage that would
> match ones embedded in the boarding pass. They would make it easier
> to link
> passengers to their bags or, more importantly, find them when they
> are separated.
>
>
>
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> Telegraph Group Limited
> and must not be reproduced in any medium without licence.
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