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

[Kyle Maxwell]

Agreed, but I'm more interested in the legal implications here.
According to prosecutors, if you're teaching people how to bypass a
security control and you know they are concealing evidence of a crime,
you could be liable. That's important to know and account for.

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Griffin Boyce <griffinboyce at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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