“The government is researching whether the best defense against a chemical, biological or radiological attack might one day be right in everyone’s hands — or on their ears,”USA Today reports.Further,”the Homeland Security Department says the program, called Cell-All, might work this way: Detectors would be placed in cellphones, most of which are already linked to the Global Positioning System. If a detector recorded a hit, the GPS would transmit the location and time to local emergency responders and Homeland Security’s operations center.
The responders would go to the scene; Homeland Security would issue warnings and inform police departments and FBI offices across the country. If there was just one hit, it could be a false positive and there wouldn’t be much cause for concern, Dietrich says. But multiple hits from the same area would prompt an immediate response”.

Phones studied as attack detector

“The government is researching whether the best defense against a chemical, biological or radiological attack might one day be right in everyone’s hands — or on their ears,”USA Today reports.Further,”the Homeland Security Department says the program, called Cell-All, might work this way: Detectors would be placed in cellphones, most of which are already linked to [...]