JetBlue Gives Away Passenger Info To TSA?

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JetBlue Gives Away Passenger Info To TSA?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday September 17, 2003 @07:01PM from the eye-in-the-sky dept.

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."

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color by CGP314 · 2003-09-17 19:07 · Score: 4, Funny

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

So is blue good or bad?
Re:It's a joke by Angostura · 2003-09-17 19:24 · Score: 3, Funny

Ah yes. Thank goodness those clean cut, caucasian all American lads never go gun crazy.
Re:Similar thing happened to me... by kfg · 2003-09-17 19:55 · Score: 4, Funny

You want to really mess with their heads?

Fly to Florida one way, hitch-hike back, then fly one way to Florida again.

Rinse and repeat.

Smoke will probably come out of their tiny little ears before they figure out how you can do that.

KFG
Re:Similar thing happened to me... by CGP314 · 2003-09-17 20:03 · Score: 2, Funny

He took a one-way flight!!! He's a terrorist lets do extra security on him for the next 30 flights!!

Oh great. I took a one-way fight out of the country. I'm going to be labeled a terrorist forever.
Re:Oops and there's more.. by ninejaguar · 2003-09-18 03:54 · Score: 2, Funny

I wish slashdotters would stop shocking their pilot friends. They're already paranoid enough to demand to carry guns on their flights (good for impressing chicks at the bar while still in uniform). Just what we need: paranoid, gun-totting, alcoholic, would-be-cassanovas flying something equivalent to a missile, while you and your family are too afraid to go to the bathroom on the chance that the rest of the passengers might mistakenly jump your ass for the crime of having a permament tan.
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