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The U.S. military has long been conducting biometric scanning in Afghanistan, as it was very successful in Iraq in helping identify insurgents and terrorists [1
by mpyne 12y ago
The U.S. military has long been conducting biometric scanning in Afghanistan, as it was very successful in Iraq in helping identify insurgents and terrorists [1]
I would assume this is a major source, possibly along with the attempts to gain covert access to other nations' similar counter-terrorism biometric databases.
[1] http://www.wired.com/2010/09/afghan-biometric-dragnet-could-snag-millions/ http://www.wired.com/2010/09/afghan-biometric-dragnet-could-...
- sitkack 12y agoI remember listening to an interview of soldiers who had to iris scans of all the people we killed in Fallujah. 500+ corpses piled in rows, remove the sheet, scan biometrics, next. Not sure exactly what the point was.
- tomschlick 12y agoTo see if they killed any known insurgents / high value targets. If they can mark them off the list then they can focus on getting the other ones / people that fill their empty position.
- e12e 12y agoIt's interesting, that by forcing/coercing/recruiting a single individual (say a patrol leader in Afghanistan) you can insert false information (say DNA, fingerprint and iris scan) into the database, so that when you drop your poor ignorant doppelgänger dead in a back alley in some country rife with civil war you can be taken off the list of targets...
- angersock 12y agoAre suggesting that a multi-million dollar program can be defeated by a three-cent bullet and the will to do the deplorable? Surely you jest--I suppose next you'll be asserting that you can cause billions of dollars of economic damage using only some box cutters!