AP: Smart cams, armed guards, iris scans and more to protect WTC site

[Rose Siding]

NEW YORK -- Some day, at the new and rebuilt World Trade Center site, visitors might submit to an iris scan or an analysis of their thumb print to get into buildings, while smart cameras try to match their faces to a photo database of known terrorists. Well-paid, armed guards would be on patrol while sensors test the air for lethal gases.

Preliminary details of a plan to make the redeveloped 16-acre site as terrorism-proof as possible were provided to The Associated Press this week by former FBI agent James Kallstrom, Gov. George Pataki's senior counterterrorism adviser. Kallstrom and city and federal officials are aiming for a standard of security that doesn't yet exist in public spaces around the nation.
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site and has its own police force, could share responsibility for the site with city police and highly trained, armed security guards.

"These will not be minimum-wage people," Kallstrom said.
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Silverstein and the Port Authority have said construction will exceed city building and fire codes, but the agency-owned site has never been legally required to submit to city inspections.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--groundzerosecurit0225feb25,0,3816255.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

[4morewars]

1. Freedom is on the march !

Oh, wait, that doesn't sound like freedom ! It kinda sounds like prison.

Also, I'm curious as to how an iris scanner would stop an aircraft from flying into the building ?
Another 'catastrophic success' from the bush* mis-administration.

[liberal N proud]

5. As the repukes would say Freedom isn't free

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Yeah. I can see how that's going to stop a hijacked airliner. nt

[Skink]

3. W will never get to go into the building now

[Trillo]

4. Oh, goody, another private database of personal information.

Who gets the profit from this collected data?

[slaveplanet]

6. You think that's bad

Liz McIntyre(co-author of SpyChips) says she found a Request For Information(RFI) at a government business opportunity website, and they were looking for vendors who could come up with a RFID on steriods. She said it was talking about wanting to beef up the technology they're using now at the USvisit program. They're testing it at several borders where they have these vistor documents with spychips on them. She said what they want to do is;

a)Read these documents from 25 ft away
b)Read them from cars driving by at 55 miles per hour
c)Read up to 55 RFID tags simultaneously on busses as they drive by
d)and they want to be able to pinpoint pedestrians on the street where they stand

The RFI also says they are thinking about using this for other purposes and by other agencies.

Just think, if we ever get out of the camps we could be right back in prison.

If you ain't done no crime...you're still gonna do the time.

A complete Class system on a microchip