• Security being taught how to recognize signs of nervousness like biting finger nails, holding tickets in mouth, and looking worried.
• Security technique - behavior detection
  • Developed for Israeli airport security
  • looks for suspicious people
  • Ask them questions about travel plans or work
    • Agents taught to analyze responses, speech, body language, and facial gestures
• TSA has 2000 employees trained
  • TSA trying to have "behaviour detection officers" at every airport
  • "We have to get out front and take the fight to them and let them know that when they show up at an airport, they're susceptible to being identified," TSA chief Kip Hawley
• "Terrorists or anybody who knows about screening will find this very easy to beat if you give them a little training," says Michigan State University professor Timothy Levine
  • Author of papers on communications and deception
• Computers being trained to analyze gestures and cues from video feeds - tell-tale hand and head movements

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