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JetBlue Gives Away Passenger Info To TSA?
Old Ben Franklin writes "In September of 2002, JetBlue Airways secretly gave the Transportation Security Administration the full travel records of 5 million JetBlue customers. This sensitive travel data was then turned-over to a private security contractor for analysis, the results of which were presented at a security conference earlier this year and the analysis then posted on the Internet." This comes after Wired News's recent article on this matter, explaining that "...the proposed government system to prevent terrorism by color-coding airline passengers according to their risk level will be tested using old passenger itineraries from JetBlue", but quoting a TSA spokesman as saying that "currently only fake passenger data was being used."
Sleep well.
people who say this (usually about the 'indestructible' black box) and really, honestly, think they are being witty and making a valid, clever point are really fucking stupid. I hope you're not one of those people.
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
If it were true that the latest spat of hijackings were performed by white people, I would fully expect that white people ought to be more closely scrutinized. As it stands today, the major problem in air security is not white guys, it is Arabic guys.
Fuck it's trolls like you that make me want to start logging in and maintaining a Foe's lise.
Because, you know, the IRA was made up of Hamid's and Abdullah's. And, you know, the dozens of daily flights to and from Aisa all have to be shot down just before they hit office towers.
Stupid fuckwit.
I know this is Slashdot, and on Slashdot everything the government does is Bad, and there's this sacred notion of "privacy" which apparently has to do with not being accountable to anybody for anything. However, there's something the Americans in the Slashdot Privacy Crew should consider:
THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO WANT TO KILL YOU.
Yes, they want to kill you. They have for many years and they will for many years to come. They are very creative. And that's why new measures like these are necessary.
I'd venture to guess that the same folks who denounce a passenger-profiling program are the first ones who will criticize and point fingers for "not seeing the 9/11 clues". You simply cannot have it both ways.
If there was any separation, the president wouldn't talk of praying to god to help get through tough times like after 9/11. Separation is supposed to keep god out of the whitehouse as well as the whitehouse out of god.
And of course if there was separation of church and state, thousands of US highschool students wouldn't be stuck getting useless diplomas right now from high schools that have allowed the church to suspend scientific process by teaching creationism in biology lectures and banning any mention of evolution.
Currently I'm tracerouting your IP address and sending it to the FBI for analysis. By insinuating that there IS separation of church and state in the US, you sir are a terrorist, or at least an idiot.
George Bush + Linux = "I will not let information get in the way of the fight against Windows"
as an experiment last year I decided to go through the TSA hriring process fro bagage screeners at airports to see if security has being done..
While I cannot give details as Uncle Sam deems normal citizens as more likely to be trrorists rather than visa candidates here is what I know bases on my military training..
1. All terrorists speak arabic and write it while CIA, FBI, and other law enforcement officals do not.
2. Terrorists come in all social economic classes
3. Psychology profiles tend to indicate fundamentalism in religon as a binding force.
You cannot defeat the enemy if you are not willing to even speak the langague and walk into that life by knowing how reliong contributes to the terrorist profile. USa gets f*ing F on security and terrorist acts prevention..Note real arabic speakingcitizens of USA want to serve FBI in this regard and the FBI would rathe rfocus on spreading racism than receiving help..
Welcome to Ashcroft's USA where only he can be president..
Folks it snot credit profiles, law offenses, or etc..the popel ewho blew up the fed building in Oklahoma were of a specific religous sect so were the poeple at waco..have we forgottten? While religon alone shoudl not be the determining factor..a religous sect that is known for producing terrorists is obvious a good indicator!
Al-Queda is both a terrorist group and a religous offshoot of wabbi..we even went for the worng country Iraq..are there any wabbi in Iraq? No...
Lets see where are there wabbi sects? Afganistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, UAR..get the poicture yet?
If we want to find terrorists then we better learn the wabbi religon and fast..
Don't Tread on OpenSource
"Flagged as a terrorist"? Please, they SSSS everybody who flies one way. I (and thousands upon thousands of business travelers) end up having to fly one way, three legged trips all the fucking time, and we all become "terrorists". Also, if you flying somewhere for an extended trip (like a hospital stay) and haven't booked a return trip yet, you are also a "terrorist". Most of the airport security TSA idiots even stopped taking the whole system too seriously after a while.
As any good terrorist knows, you never book a one way trip in the US. Duh. Now the rest of us poor schmoes just need to accept that we should pay twice as much every time we travel to avoid getting a fucking anal probe in line at the airport.
The government needs to flag people whose name is Mohammad bin Mohammad, people who have spent modest to extended amounts of time in the Middle East, people who act suspiciously and so on. And all the Slashdot liberals can take your liberal bullshit and shove it, I fucking *WANT* some racial profiling.
"Seperate planes first, seperate neighbourhoods next. Why not just round them all up and put them all in a ghetto now?"
All I gotta say to this is - Can do.
Oh yes, all those high quality fake US passports out there. The fact is that most terrorists aren't going to be travelling around with fake passports in the US. It's hard to get good ones. Sure, nobody really cares if a Mexican uses a fake green card to get a job, but somebody sees an Arab with a fake passport, they are going to rot in jail for a very, very long time.
Also, I don't think I've ever been called a redneck by somebody posting from the state of Georgia. Come live in NYC a while, then let's talk about racial realities. Forget the "redneck" tripe, I'm a yuppie city boy, shithead.