At 08:22 PM 7/5/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Ah, I found the article:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38775,00.html September 15, 2000
-Declan
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:08:27PM -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> wrote:
I sent a freelance reporter to a conference and edited her story that described NSA-funded research designed to do gait recognition, recognizing someone by the way they walk.
Time to dig out those "Ministry of Silly Walks" episodes. :-)
Reminds me of Kevin Spacey's extraordinary performance in "The Usual Suspects." I suspect this technology could be defeated simply by placing a small, uncomfortable, stone in you shoe, in much the same way others have reportedly thwarted polygraph tests using a tack in the shoe to mess up biometric baseline comparisons. steve