RawCode

From Stonetable:

The Washington Post is running an article about how the TSA is training agents on how to detect “stress, fear and deception” among travelers waiting in line.

If you are traveling I really hope you are not having a bad day, feeling sick, worried about something, or have a medical condition that affects motor functions as you might be detained and searched.

From the article:

The teams have referred more than 40,000 people for extra screening since January 2006. Of those passengers, nearly 300 were arrested on charges including carrying concealed weapons and drug trafficking. TSA officials will not say whether the screeners have helped nab potential terrorists, but they say terrorists and other lawbreakers exhibit the same behavioral clues.

This new training doesn’t make me feel any safer when it has a success rate of only 0.0075%.

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