Spiff
Sep 2, 03, 11:57 am
St. Petersburg Times Article (http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/31/Columns/Fly_the_suspicious_sk.shtml)
"Before it has even been implemented, the future of airport security is obsolete. For about $150 worth of fake IDs and identity research anyone can fool the computerized passenger screening system expected to arrive at airports by the summer of 2004.
The newest generation Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, or CAPPS II, is billed as a better way to separate potential terrorists from regular air travelers. Its backers claim it will ably authenticate the identity of air travelers and assess their likely risk of terrorist links. But all it takes to defeat the system is a passable fake driver's license and someone else's identity."
More scarecrow security nonsense from the TSA; Should we expect anything else?
Resign, Admiral Loy!
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"Give me Liberty or give me Death." - Patrick Henry
"Before it has even been implemented, the future of airport security is obsolete. For about $150 worth of fake IDs and identity research anyone can fool the computerized passenger screening system expected to arrive at airports by the summer of 2004.
The newest generation Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, or CAPPS II, is billed as a better way to separate potential terrorists from regular air travelers. Its backers claim it will ably authenticate the identity of air travelers and assess their likely risk of terrorist links. But all it takes to defeat the system is a passable fake driver's license and someone else's identity."
More scarecrow security nonsense from the TSA; Should we expect anything else?
Resign, Admiral Loy!
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"Give me Liberty or give me Death." - Patrick Henry