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Secret Clandestine Facial Recognition Countermeasures and The Future of the CIA

Presently Universities and Private Enterprise are working to build more robust “Facial Recognition Technologies” due to the Homeland Security Funding for such research this field continues to grow. Anti-Terrorist efforts are a worldwide goal, so we are sharing this technologies with allies for use in their countries. These new technologies will also end up in the hands of our enemies or perhaps future enemies. Such hostile nations towards the US with such recognition software may prevent our clandestine spy efforts abroad. Getting our assets and spies in country can be difficult and history has shown that it takes much secrecy and effort to get in, get information and get out without detection.

Hostile nations will consider our spy efforts in those countries as International Terrorists, much the same way as we see their spies who come to our country if and when they are caught. Such Facial Recognition and software equipment will therefore be readily deployed to detect our infiltration efforts and exploitation of their systems. Since we have now invented this technology we need to find a way to beat it when, it is used against us by our enemy.

The United States allows citizens form other countries to attend our Universities, which do intensive research in these areas “human recognition” and that information is being duplicated in their countries of origin. We will explain the most common types of human recognition in this report. Currently Facial Recognition Technologies are not used very often since they are far from perfect and are probably not the best identification device, however the technology is rapidly becoming very viable. Soon such recognition software will be more than adequate for identifying those people we wish to catch and keep out of our sensitive areas.

The CIA has a terrible leak problem with information, the FBI not much better. The FBI has lost some 2000 computer laptops, is now sharing information and data bases with other law enforcement and we all remember the Spy Sex Scandals recently. The CIA also cannot keep a secret, nor can those in Washington who are in the know, as we recently found out with the wife of a Senator being written about in a major newspaper. Then of course there are sleeper sells, deep cover operatives and hackers all waiting in the shadows and gathering information. Once a database of operatives has been exploited or a cover of a clandestine agent is discovered their face will be put into data bases of foreign countries to catch them using such facial recognition and other human recognition software and equipment. Today the problem is not wide spread but the technological advances of mankind are not exclusive to the US alone. So what exactly is Facial Recognition Software and how does it work?

http://people.howstuffworks.com/facial-recognition.htm

So far the companies promoting their technologies in the Facial Recognition Software and Equipment sector have found killer applications. After 9-11 there has been much money flow for projects, which can help identify International Terrorists. The technology was further spurred on by such big screen movies as “Minority Report” as security professionals decided, wow, now if we had that technology we could prevent an International Terrorist act. Of course free rights advocates cringed and thought of it as a wake up call to what big brother might be thinking about next. Link Discussing Thoughts on “Minority Report” – Movie:

http://artificialintelligence.ai-depot.com/Future/568.html

The TSA has approved Facial Recognition Systems and technologies for several Airport Terminals on a trail basis.

Overview of Progress of the TSA Security Screening:

http://www.tsa.gov/public/display?theme=44...9000519800cf9c8

Large Stadiums have also used Facial Recognition Systems to scan individual faces as they walk into the events such as Baseball, Football, Air shows, Shuttle Launch Spectator Areas and even at NASCAR races. As this technology continues to achieve a higher percentage of positive recognition it will be more widely used. We know this will be the natural progression of facial recognition systems because we have watched the growth and refining of other types of recognition software, which are now widely used and considered common practice. Technologies like those used in document scanning, OCR, and those used in Speech Recognition. These are now commonplace business tools used worldwide. Security Professionals are now taking these to the next step and finding ways to use these technologies in Homeland Security, Intelligence and law enforcement. Facial Recognition will also follow this type of growth curb in the next 4-5 years.

Geo Spatial technologies have also gotten better with aerial satellite recognition, able to quickly point out a new building, missile silo, change in landscape from an Earth Event or a truck convoy anomaly in an area where it rarely occurs. These technologies are also used in national security within our borders and law enforcement to a large degree, when prior they were used for only war planning, intelligence gathering and watching mother earth.

It stands to reason then that as similar technologies in recognition get better and better that human recognition technologies such as “human gait recognition” and “human eye recognition” will also become more reliable. Facial Recognition is within this class of rapidly coming of age human recognition technologies. Our Intelligence Communities including the clandestine departments of the CIA will need to figure out how to protect their agents and fool these systems long enough to get in safely, collect human intelligence and get out undetected.

In prior periods CIA clandestine operations use an array of various methods to conceal identity of agents, operatives and assets. They often used movie industry tricks like make-up, eyeglasses, fake mustaches, and wigs. They put rocks in their shoes to cause a walk which stood out and which caused observers after the fact to remember the limp rather than the face or tell tale features, which might easily get them caught. (Rule Number One: “Don’t Get Caught”). Unfortunately these techniques in the Spy Book Manuals may not work, as human recognition software gets better.

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Lance Winslow, a retired entrepreneur, adventurer, modern day philosopher and perpetual tourist.

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