Lies about lie detectors

In a classic piece of knee jerk legislation, the UK government has announced that it will make a polygraph test part of the pre-release consideration process for terrorist prisoners. This website has repeatedly stressed what all spies know: polygraphs do not work. Their results are no better than chance. The …

FRT (again)

As an aside from the Norwegian Intelligence Service’s “Focus 19” (see below), the document contains an analysis of Chinese cyber control policy. It includes (at page 77) a photograph of a Chinese police officer at a train station in Zengzhou. She is wearing a pair of smart sunglasses that, says …