posted
Made the news twice since the last terror threat. Apperently they are the only company making an xray machine that can detect liquid bombs. It can actually distinguish between Dasani water and some explosive liquid just by xraying it.
Keep eye on it.
Posts: 577 | Registered: Nov 2004
| IP: Logged |
"Guardian Technologies already makes software that analyzes the images produced by X-ray machines. Mr. Lancaster said that the Transportation Security Administration would begin testing, possibly next week, a new computer program that looks at the X-ray image pixel by pixel, far more carefully than the human eye could. The software can be set to sound an alarm when a specified number of pixels show a liquid (or solid) with a density that is characteristic of an explosive."
"It can actually distinguish between Dasani water and some explosive liquid just by xraying it."
No. This software is in development and testing phase. There are ways to defeat this software which relies on density table parsing.
An example, hair cream rinse mixed with a very small amount of liquid nitroglycerin most likely would not be detected. Both contain oils of similar density making this difficult to detect.
However, sniffers would detect nitroglycerin because nitro is the most common component of dynamite and does outgas.
This software cannot distinguish between different liquid substances nor distinguish between gel substances. This software can only sound an alert when the density of a material matches a known density entry in a database. This software cannot distinguish between materials. This software can only measure the density of a material.
Acetone and rubbing alcohol, most likely would appear the same to this software. Acetone is extremely explosive, alcohol is not.
Sniffers would not detect those if in carefully sealed containers. Any "leftover" evaporates almost instantly and leaves little or no residue.
A positive is this stock might exhibit an upward run based on speculation. However, there are two problems. One is this company is in very bad financial shape and their software is yet to be proven effective.
Government approval and purchase of their software would be very positive.
A serious concern is charts indicate this stock is at the tailend of a pump and dump and charts suggest share prices will continue to fall to about 2.00 per share for the short term.
Might be a bandwagon effect but this can only be determined by visiting many discussion boards to discover the level of pumping. If not much pumping is found, then a one time bandwagon.
Nonetheless, share price behavior will exhibit the same trends as a pump and dump.
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic
