<![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> @IchabodCrane: I couldn't agree more!

Habu

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> Who will maintain the skeleton database and update it each time I break something? Who's going to create a skeleton template for terrorists? Wouldn't terrorists hire an unknown "skeleton" for each mission? Who will guarantee this is safe? The same people who guarantee toys are lead free? Wrong, just wrong...

IchabodCrane

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> Yeah, instantly made me think of the scanner in Total Recall!

On a serious note, GREAT, inching that much closer to Orwell's 1984....the analogy has become cliche these days, but rings true.....

Habu

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> This was predicted by Greg Egan about 12 years ago, in his novel "Quarantine." In the book, travelers must submit to a skeletal assay to establish their identities. The only way to cheat it is to get extensive orthopedic surgery.

And the motivation for the security measures in the story is, of course, terrorism.

- bp

bprince

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> @kraffft:
or really old terrorists that have osteoperosis

toopersent

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> Just go to your neighborhood BALCO store and purchase a friendly dose of steroids and alter your skeletal frame.

riqgeez

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> Worse yet ... with your diagrams, you at home can make on --- yourself!

Eac_o_System

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> I still don't know if I like people beaming microwaves at me all the time. Business travel may have to qualify as hazard duty.

Veeber

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> "a means to identify individuals at a distance and/or without requiring direct contact."

And since we all own out skeletons...
Shouldn't we be compensated for all of the repeated viewing that will occur while we are being scanned everywhere we go?

I want residues on the viewing of my skeleton... $100 per view, especially since I'm being bombarded with doses of radiation in order for the viewing to occur.

dOk

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> @moff: While I normally hate to say this, el-oh-el.

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> Some ways around this?... Brain transplants. Various types of mind control to get non-terrorists to act inside secure zones. Bribes. Wearing microwave proof clothing to prevent surreptitious data collection. Genetic modification of existing bone altering diseases. Overthrowing all authoritarian governments that would use tech like this. Becoming a terrorist when you're young and bones haven't taken a permanent shape. Using human shields on the escalator...

kraffft

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> @braak: Nice. Tell me how that goes, because if there's any major organ of mine that could use replacing, it's the liver.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> @moff: I am holding out for a future rocket-launching robot liver.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> @laughingacademy: How does this get us closer to girls with three boobs?

moff

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> @braak: Yeah, unfortunately, I'm pretty sure my "replace my original skeleton with a nuclear-powered titanium one" plan would actually cause more problems than it solved.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> And so we take one step closer to the coolest bit in Total Recall.

laughingacademy

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> Gawker Media articles from the future!

"I broke every bone in my body, now the TSA thinks I am a terrorist."

"Terrorist breaks every bone in body to get through airport security"



Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> It would be pretty hard to spoof your skeleton.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[The Authorities Have Your Skeleton On File]]> And the TSA had better hope they're armed with maces or other blunt weapons if they don't want to risk only causing half-damage on a successful attack.

moff

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