Comments on: Airport Screening Stories

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:12:34 +0000

Thank you for submitting your comment Richard, the data mining bots successfully recognized that you [have dangerous information] are hallucinating.

Another bot will automatically remove all information that you ever existed, and you will be brought to a [insane asylum] safe place to be [tortured] treated.

Everyone else go about your business.

By: Richard Hunter

Richard Hunter — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:13 +0000

Bruce Schneier — who’s well-known in information security circles — said recently that persons on the no-fly list are examples of a new class of criminal: people who are too dangerous to be full participants in society, but too innocent to charge with a crime.

In cases such as these low-level administrative procedure, supported by extensive (and secretive, hence irrefutable) data analysis, substitutes for due process. As availability of data increases and the price/performance ratio of computer processing power continues to improve, absent continuous monitoring and outcry by concerned citizens, such data-driven approaches to justice can be expected to proliferate. The same can be expected of many private sector activities, such as hiring and firing. After all, something very much like this happens every time you apply for credit.

In other words, we can all expect a lot more of this stuff.

By: Scipio

Scipio — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:32:56 +0000

I am surprised.

No, wait, I’m not.

It took the IRS over two years to catch my failure to report early-disbursed state retirement income. TWO YEARS for MONEY I OWED THE FEDS.

This is the classic example of high marginal costs for unquantifiable benefits.

By: Illuminati

Illuminati — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 18:44:05 +0000

So any clue what the names of these people were? It would seem a more ‘foreign’ name would be targeted more than a name commonly used in the States for the last two centuries.