Work on the 3rd edition of The Lie Behind the Lie Detectoris nearly completed, and a public release is anticipated in August 2003.

It is a relatively minor update compared to the 2nd edition. Details will be posted when the new edition goes on-line.

You have two pneumo tubes around your chest to monitor respiration rate. There are two gizmos attached to two fingertips to monitor GSR. Bloodpressure cuff used to monitor blood pressure and pulse rate.

These feed into a little box that is nothing more than a transducer. What is a transducer? A device to convert mechanical input into electrical output (http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?transducer). The electrical output goes into the computer. The software on the computer (like Polyscore), takes the signals and converts to the rather "scientific" displays, As Seen on TV, no less.

How to counter that process using EMF? Well, there is always the nifty side-effect of an atomic bomb, EMP, that would be sure to create the effect you are looking for. Downside: a lot of people with really, really bad sunburns (think Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2).

Being a movie buff, you may be thinking of that device used in Ocean's Eleven, the one used to shut down the entire electric grid for a city. Upside: the test is stopped. Downside: your mother may be in surgery.

Okay, so let's scale down the weapons a bit. Some form of transmission that would jumble the input into the computer would do the trick. Where to aim it, how to aim it, how powerful, how big, where do you use it from, what about side effects on other computer users? Once that is discovered, all it takes is a shielded cable to protect the transducer/computer connection. Just like the way your cable TV cable uses a shielded jacket so outside/interferring signals are not allowed to affect the cable transmission.

Got your work cut out for you, don't you?

aldo_huxley wrote on Aug 8^th, 2003 at 2:02am:

Telsa Coil?  I don't think ionizing the air locally or even the fairly high RF field would have any effect on a polygraph. High RF fields are pretty ubiquitous these days and most instruments are designed to neither emit nor respond to significant levels of EM fields. None of the polygraph sensors are intrinsically sensitive to EM fields.

-Marty

Aldo,

One agency that I tested for made me leave my briefcase in another room.   

They said that it was necessary because an applicant might attempt to disrupt the 'test' through electronic means.

I think that they were just paranoid that I might sneak in a tape recorder (which I wish I had).

I think that if your were caught trying to disrupt the process you could kiss that agency goodbye forever and it probably wouldn't look good on other applications.

suethem wrote on Aug 9^th, 2003 at 3:21am:

I think your hypothesis was most likely correct. Hey, what's another polygrapher's lie. BTW, in some states it would be legal to tape an exam without all parties being informed, in others it isn't. Tripp learned all about that.

-Marty

Sorry, but I did not make myself clear. Tesla coil was just and idea, the 13.56 MHz generator I was speaking of is a linear design. We had a near disaster due to 13.56 MHz system which had RF leakage affecting a system about 150 feet away where the CPU was "frozen" as were the sensors of a hot acid bath and the critical temperature was almost reached before I used the old fashioned method of  a mercury thermometer. Gee, I ramble. Funny thing, the leakage and effect was due to 1 screw missing from a cooling fan. I think you can image what you could do intentionally if you so desire. To clear things up a bit, the generator is 1KW design. 

AH

If you turn on your system at a time your not scheduled, leave it on till dommsday so to speak, they cannot do there job, EVER! 

No connection to you, they are rendered helpless.

Think about that, yea takes effor and planning, but it can be done.

Last post on this subject. I just wanted to throw it out there.

Later,

AH