[liberationtech] Seeing threats, feds target instructors of polygraph-beating methods

[Griffin Boyce]

Kyle Maxwell wrote:
> [Comment: This has implications for those of us involved in
> CryptoParty as well as other security education efforts.]
>
> The criminal inquiry, which hasn’t been acknowledged publicly, is
> aimed at discouraging criminals and spies from infiltrating the U.S.
> government by using the polygraph-beating techniques, which are said
> to include controlled breathing, muscle tensing, tongue biting and
> mental arithmetic.

  One can also mitigate galvanic skin response via adderall.  GSR (and
polygraph as a whole) is *also* affected by such things as whether the
interviewer is the same race as you (Fischer & Kotses, 1973).  It's not
admissible in court because it's not objective.  Polygraph is arguably
not even science, and was created at a time when almost nothing was
known about the interplay between neurology and psychology.  Spending
time investigating polygraph-defeators is completely useless.

~Griffin

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