Pentagon System Hopes to Identify Walks
In their ever-expanding efforts to protect the American populace, the Pentagon has begun borrowing ideas from old "Monty Python" episodes. You might call this the "Snivelling Little Rat-Faced Git" Anti-Terror System....
Operating on the theory that an individual's walk is as unique as a signature, the Pentagon has financed a research project at the Georgia Institute of Technology that has been 80 to 95 percent successful in identifying people.
If the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, orders a prototype, the individual ``gait signatures'' of people could become part of the data to be linked together in a vast surveillance system the Pentagon agency calls Total Information Awareness.
Of course, the potential for misuse of this sort of system is as yet unknown, but it certainly is cause for concern. In the meantime, I just hope that the Pentagon doesn't start getting ideas from old "Will and Grace" episodes.
