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It would be nice to have better screening tools, but that doesn’t mean a company should get to lie about what their products are capable of and how they work.

by parsimo2010 2y ago

It would be nice to have better screening tools, but that doesn’t mean a company should get to lie about what their products are capable of and how they work. Ironically, millimeter wave imagers, that are legitimately capable of finding hidden weapons pretty much anywhere, isn’t deployed outside airports because of the cost and the huge backlash that anything that has the resolution to accurately distinguish a gun can also image your private parts quite well. Evolv wants you to think they can have comparable accuracy with higher throughput and lower cost, but I’ll bet every airport in the country would have them if those claims were true. So instead Evolv preys on nervous leaders who want some protection in large public gatherings but aren’t knowledgeable about security.

Syonyk 2y ago
> So instead Evolv preys on nervous leaders who want some protection in large public gatherings but aren’t knowledgeable about security. That's certainly consistent with their email list. I have no idea how I got on it, but I was on it for a while about church security, and it was constant "webinar" reminders (I assume, sales pitch without having to actually interact with people one-on-one) about how you might have people "bringing guns into" your church without knowing it, etc. It would have been interesting tech to play with. I figure that a quarter of the church on any given Sunday was carrying in some definition of "concealed" or another (ranging from "Dude, I can read the serial number on your gun through your shirt..." to "I'm certain there are people carrying that I would never expect to be carrying and will never know unless there's a reason it needs to come out").
- SoftTalker 2y ago
  In at least some parts of the USA there is probably a fair overlap between people who carry any time they leave their house and people who go to church every Sunday.

Syonyk 2y ago

> So instead Evolv preys on nervous leaders who want some protection in large public gatherings but aren’t knowledgeable about security. That's certainly consistent with their email list. I have no idea how I got on it, but I was on it for a while about church security, and it was constant "webinar" reminders (I assume, sales pitch without having to actually interact with people one-on-one) about how you might have people "bringing guns into" your church without knowing it, etc. It would have been interesting tech to play with. I figure that a quarter of the church on any given Sunday was carrying in some definition of "concealed" or another (ranging from "Dude, I can read the serial number on your gun through your shirt..." to "I'm certain there are people carrying that I would never expect to be carrying and will never know unless there's a reason it needs to come out").

SoftTalker 2y ago
In at least some parts of the USA there is probably a fair overlap between people who carry any time they leave their house and people who go to church every Sunday.