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Deception detection is weak spot in security, police interrogation techniques

How good are police at judging when suspects lie? Indeed, how good is anybody at detecting deception by other people?Having written yesterday about false confessions, I sat up and took notice when (via Bruce Schneier) I saw this post from Ross Anderson at Light Blue Touch Paper, liveblogging from the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior at MIT last month on problems related to deception and computer security. (Here are photos from the event if you weren't on the exclusive invite list.) According to Anderson:The first session, on deception, was fascinating. It emphasised the huge range of problems, from detecting deception in interpersonal contexts such as interrogation through the effects of context and misdirection to how we might provide better trust signals to computer users...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 06, 2008 (boomark / email).