Searching for Security by Preventing Risk

Abstract

Post 9/11 security strategies to prevent terrorist attacks against the United States currently rely heavily on sophisticated electronic identifiers. Such equipment includes, among among others, digital photography and retinal scanning. All electronic devices now in use, are reactive. That is, without background checks, they are unable to predict future subversive behaviour based on the information they provide. Screening for potential terrorist behaviour, without background checks, is readily accomplished through brief reliable and valid risk assessment questionnaires developed similarly to I.Q. tests. Their implementation as an anti-terrorist procedure is recommended.