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Re:Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and G... by vorpalhex on Thursday August 16, 2018 @10:07AM (#17774686)
My mom worked at a bank that installed what they called a "man trap". Essentially there's a large magnetometer between two sets of heavy doors that locks the doors if it detects someone with a firearm (or any large block of magnetic material) has tried to enter the bank.

On any given week, they'd catch about a half dozen police officers, a maintenance person or two who still had their tools on them, and the occasional delivery person.

After a few weeks they disabled the system entirely.

Re:Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and G... by neuralRiot on Thursday August 16, 2018 @03:38PM (#17777836)
An interesting article about false positives and negatives and their impact in the reliability of a detection system. (I believe it has been linked in HN before) It explains why "95% accurate" is BS.

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2012/11/02/car-alarms-and-smoke-...

Re:Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and G... by cesarb on Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:47PM (#17778277)
I thought every bank branch had that (or a revolving door, also with a magnetometer). I don't recall ever seeing a bank branch without one. And it's not just large blocks of magnetic material, even small things like key chains can set them off.