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...Supreme Court was clearly more troubled by the privacy issues than Huguenin. The majority opinion explicitly used the heat-detector case to draw what Justice Antonin Scalia called a firm, bright line blocking the use of this and future imaging technologies to peer into the home or any other place where an individual might have a reasonable expectation of privacy...
...polygraph demonstration put on by Dennis J. Peloquin, a member of the Association of Massachusetts Polygraphists. After administering a sample test to one of the 40 eager volunteers, Peloquin answered questions about how easy it is to deceive the polygraph machine. When asked, however, whether a lie detector test is always conclusive, his positive response was met with dubious chorus of “yeah, but my mom’s a lawyer,” “my mom’s a lawyer too...” and he quickly concluded the question and answer session...
...part because they have seen the survivors of school massacres weeping after the slaughter, many kids are helping to stop the shooting before it starts by sharing information about troubled peers. "The best metal detector is the student," says Ronald Stephens of the National School Safety Center. That's because in more than 75% of school-violence incidents, the attacker had told someone first, according to a post-Columbine study by the Secret Service that applied its threat-assessment techniques to school safety...
KEEP IT REAL Who needs Pinocchio's nose or Wonder Woman's magic lasso when you've got a Handy Truster? This palm-size portable lie detector ($50 at goodmorningshop.com is supposed to be able to sense tremors and other signs of stress in a prevaricator's voice. The Handy Truster comes in several colors, and its South Korean manufacturer, 911 Computer, insists that it's just for fun. (The pitch: "Enjoy the truth game with your colleagues!") It also works via cell phone for remote or uncooperative subjects. Don't hang up the lasso just yet, though. Handy Truster...
...setting: any airport, U.S.A. The victims: you and your laptop. Action! You put your computer on the X-ray conveyor belt and get in line for the metal detector. The guy in front of you gets stopped and has to empty his pockets. Turns out he's a walking scrap heap, and it takes him five minutes to get through. Meanwhile, your defenseless laptop is waiting helplessly on the other side. By the time you're finally through, it's gone--swiped by Scrap Heap's accomplice on the other side...