Explosives tracers
douglas craig holland
holland at CS.ColoState.EDU
Wed Oct 20 08:22:32 PDT 1993
>
> > Steganographic signatures. Similarly, signatures are being put into
> > explosives (although they are somewhat traceable already) by using
> > various mixtures of trace elements.
>
> I believe that they also use small (microscopic) color coded chips of
> plastic. There is an OTA report on this topic with a name something
> like "Taggants in Explosives". I believe that the report is about 10
> years old.
>
>
I remember hearing about how one congress member removed the taggants
from a sample of gunpowder using tweezers during a terrorism hearing.
Taggants can't really be relied upon.
Doug
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