Tampa using cameras to scan for wanted faces--

[Steve Schear]

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 at 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