So what's that you were saying about my posts showing some paranoia about privacy lately?
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The Department of Homeland Security will soon be using a laser at airports that can detect everything about you from over 160-feet away.
Gizmodo reports a scanner that could read people at the molecular level has been invented. This laser-based scanner – which can be used 164-feet away — could read everything from a person’s adrenaline levels, to traces of gun powder on a person’s clothes, to illegal substances — and it can all be done without a physical search. It also could be used on multiple people at a time, eliminating random searches at airports.
Sure, the story notes, such a device "could be used by Big Brother," but the company developing it says it "could be far more beneficial being used for medical purposes to check for cancer in real time, lipids detection, and patient monitoring." That's like, oh, "Certainly nuclear power could be used for weapons of mass destruction, but it could be far more beneificial as a source of energy." Well, OK, then; never mind.
