Ayman Helweh
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 Tunnel of Truth Although I am extremely sick of the obessesive airport security measures, I actually think this is a swell idea. Maybe the name ‘Tunnel of Truth’ makes it sound cool and geeky. The Transportation Security Administration is exploring a way to take advantage of people waiting in long airport lines by incorporating a virtual patdown. Susan Hallowell, the Director of Transportation Security Laboratory suggested a design where airline passengers no longer have to take their shoes off after standing in a long line at airport security checkpoints by combining the line with an array of sensors resulting into what she calls a “tunnel of truth.”  The concept — with the somewhat Orwellian name — would have passengers stand on a conveyor belt moving under an archway as various sensors scan them for weapons, bombs or other prohibited items. By the time they step out of the tunnel, they have been thoroughly checked out, she said at a homeland security science and technology conference sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association.
“You’re in line anyway … why not enclose that in a little glass thing and do your analysis there?” she asked. The lab has given a grant to Penn State University to study the concept, she added.
(nationaldefensemagazine.org)References: nationaldefensemagazine.org, gizmodo 1 Comment: on New Airline Security Mechanisms |
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