Body odor: New proof of ID?

[Are_grits_groceries]

The Department of Homeland Security plans to study the possibility that human body odor might be used to determine when people are lying, or to identify individuals in the same way that fingerprints can.

In a federal procurement document posted Friday on the Web, the department´s Science and Technology Directorate says it will conduct an "outsourced, proof-of-principle study to determine if human odor signatures can serve as an indicator of deception. ... As a secondary goal, this study will examine ... human odor samples for evidence to support the theory that an individual can be identified by that individual´s odor signature."

Officials said the work was at a very early stage, but the announcement brought criticism. Barry Steinhardt, of the American Civil Liberties Union's Technology and Liberty project, said the plan showed that the department had "misplaced priorities."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/10/body-odor-new-proof-id/

What does a lie smell like??

[Morning Dew]

1. outsourced?

Damn. Is checking body odor a job that Americans won't do?

[AnneD]

6. That was the first thing I noticed too.....

interesting.....

[AnneD]

7. The dread double post

I'm :blush:

[ogneopasno]

2. I have a very, very strong sense of smell -- I'm not super sensitive to perfume, I just have a great

nose -- and it's kind of uncanny to me what my nose can tell me. I can't smell lies (but boy, can I spot 'em), but I smell things long before anyone else does, and I'm tickled by the fact that my kids smell like a combination of Mr. Ogneopasno and myself. But my son smells more like Mr. Ogneopasno, while my daughter smells more like me. Smell is amazing.

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. Rudyard Kipling:

"Smells are surer than sounds or sight to make your heart-strings crack."
http://www.yuni.com/quotes/kipling.html

I know that smells are powerful. The research just sounds funny. I agree with Kipling.
:hi:

[ogneopasno]

8. That is SO true.

[AnneD]

9. I have a great nose to....

some things I can actually smell: family members clothing (we have blind fold tested this one), tornadoes (an ozone aroma), if someone has just had sex (must be the pheromones), rattlesnakes (a musty earth smell), chocolate (enough to find hidden chocolate). I have very specific perfume likes and some of the pricey ones are the worst offenders. All the women in the family have sharp noses too.

[Auggie]

3. Ahh -- that explains the stink of the Bush White House

[AnneD]

5. I hate flying now....

be damned it if I submit to a crotch sniff.

[Stargazer09]

12. Yeah, things are already a bit too personal in the security line

I had to stop wearing bras with underwires when I fly, just so I wouldn't have to submit to the special metal detector treatments.

Your post cracked me up! :rofl:

[SoCalDem]

10. a new job is created.. Flop-sweat Analyst

:rofl:

[Mari333]

11. probably tastes like chicken , but i dont know what it smells like unless

I were to sniff the armpits of Bill O Reilly..

[MineralMan]

13. A blind kitty knows who you are. It cannot be fooled.

We had one such cat. It did very nicely for many years. It always knew who people were. I didn't feed it...my wife did. When it wished for it's slave to feed it, it would first sniff. Not my wife? No meow. My wife? It demanded its food.

Most people didn't even know the cat was blind.