http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...pps/index.html
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(I get the feeling this was posted before, but I'm posting it here because I don't see it. If it was already posted, I'll delete this thread.)
Some select quotes:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The placement of individuals on the No-Fly or Selectee lists has been guided by two primary principles," Manno writes -- but the principles are blacked out. One page is headed "Problems and Recommendations," and every single problem and recommendation is kept secret. If you're on one of these lists, how can you be removed? When you are "no longer assessed to be a threat to the U.S." </font>
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"How would a terrorist go about defeating CAPPS? All you'd have to do is have everyone in your cell take several flights; the people who don't get searched don't fit the profile, meaning that they're the ones who should carry out the attack. </font>
Finally:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">If you really want to be safer in the air, though, and especially if you'd rather not give the government the power to check into your records, perhaps it'd be best if you -- and everyone else -- accepted the possibility of being thoroughly searched at an airport every once in a while. "Maybe that's just the price you have to pay after Sept. 11," Strauss says. </font>
So the conclusion is that to avoid profiling, we should consent to a random occasional search at the airport. Very interesting...
As I've said before, if the search were
only used to prevent "terrorism" I'd have no problem with it -- that would mean any other things found would be overlooked, including drugs, dead bodies, etc.