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More DHS asshattery

From Wired:

What’s gotten DHS’ attention is the institute’s work on a system called Semantic Stimuli Response Measurements Technology, or SSRM Tek, a software-based mind reader that supposedly tests a subject’s involuntary response to subliminal messages.

You are kidding me, right? I mean, I know that TSA is little more than a collection of vaguely sentient monkeys, and that DHS largely exists to line the pockets of contractors, but I just assumed all that corruption, graft and bribery was going to benefit American contractors. Now it’s mind-reading computers from reject-Soviet projects. The comparison with a polygraph only further re-enforces the idiocy of it all. Polygraphs don’t work. They are not only useless, they are in-fact, dangerously useless as they only create a false sense-of-security in people too stupid to know better, i.e., politicians.

I feel safer, don’t you? Next up, the TSA decides to use Ouija boards to decide if you should be allowed on a plane.