Future security may reveal what passenger is thinking

 
By The Associated Press
Published: January 9, 2010

CHICAGO — A would-be terrorist tries to board a plane. As he walks through a security checkpoint, fidgeting and glancing around, a network of high-tech machines analyzes his body language and, in effect, reads his mind.

Screeners pull him aside. Tragedy is averted.

As far-fetched as that sounds, systems that aim to get inside an evildoer’s head are among proposals floated by security experts thinking...


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