DHS Wants Cell Phones to Detect Chemical, Radioactive Material
At the 2007 DHS Science and Technology Stakeholders Conference, S&T Director of Innovation Roger McGinnis outlined how the system could work. Cell phone sensors would continually test the air for harmful compounds and digitally relay any information to a central monitoring system if they find anything amiss.
This is a very imaginative way of using the full potential of cyberspace to fight terrorism. Of course, it might get tricky if the sensors are emitting dangerous wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. If that were to occur, then our health would be at greater risk from the very device built to protect us.
All this is new technology is exciting, but one wonders if they could use a similar system to detect attacks on the cyberspace of critical infrastructure.
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