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Feds Undertaking Massive Passenger Profiling Plan
Logic Bomb writes: "The Washington Post is running an overview of a rather big-brother-ish airline passenger screening system the government is proposing. Keeping track of people's ticket purchases is one thing, but correlating people's addresses and living arrangements...! This attempt seems closer to completion and implementation than any other that's been proposed so far."
Sadly true. The thing about terrorism is that there is no way the terrorists can't win. Any security can be circumvented. So we protect against any given types of attacks, what's to prevent them from using a different means. I could drive my pickup truck head-on into a school-bus this afternoon and nobody could stop me. (trust me, I won't) What are we going to do about that possible terrorist threat, build seperate roads for school busses to travel on? Yes, that's a bad examble, but the point is the same. That's why Bin Laden won the war on terrism the moment his pawns rammed those planes into the WTC and the Pentagon. America changed at that point. Americans became more paranoid. The government got an excuse to impose pretty much anything they want. Tilting at windmills in the guise of increasing security. But what else could have happened? We couldn't just pretend that nothing happened. If we'd have done that, that plane that dropped in Pennsylvania would have hit its target.
America is changing, and you're right... one day we'll wake up and realise it is no longer the USA. Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all be a bad dream, but that possibility is so remote as to be, well, a dream. The reality of the future is starting to settle in around us and it all seems so...
inevitable.
...just buy Doubleclick's database?
Well that would mean the Feds would have to join TrustE to show that they care about your privacy...
"I remember Y1K, every abacus had to get another bead"