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Congress to Test Air Screening Program

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the trust-in-uncle-sam dept.

unassimilatible writes "The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday it will order airlines to turn over passengers' personal records in the next couple of months to test a computerized passenger screening program that could keep dangerous people off airlines, reports Yahoo/AP. The Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, or CAPPS II, would rank all air passengers according to the likelihood of their being terrorists. Suspected terrorists and violent criminals would be designated as red and forbidden to fly. Passengers who raise questions would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening. The vast majority would be designated green and allowed through routine screening. But some say the project would violate privacy rights, while others are concerned it would cost the private sector too much money. The Air Transport Association, the trade group for major airlines, has come up with seven 'privacy principles' that it says the government should follow in implementing CAPPS II."

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  1. New List. Just the whites for now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Here are some sample colors to determine passenger threats. Of course, if there is a combo you will need to blend them.

    snow - No threat
    ghost white - Needs Haircut
    white smoke - Smells a little funny
    gainsboro - Smokes
    floral white - Beard could use trimming
    old lace - No bra
    linen - Weird looking
    antique white - Dirty Hippy
    papaya whip - Warts on hand
    blanched almond - Warts on face
    bisque - Anal warts (determined after cavity search.)
    peach puff - Gay
    navajo white - Flamingly Gay
    moccasin - Old
    cornsilk - Nice Tits
    ivory - Nice Ass
    lemon chiffon - Nice Ass (gay male)

    And the list goes on...

  2. GOOD. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm probably the only one who thinks this kind of thing is a reasonable, measured, fair response to new threats. The majority of you clowns will whine something about "eroding civil rights" while never, ever, suggesting a better approach to fixing the problem.

  3. Its really simple by rshol · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I have constructed a foolproof algorithim for detecting hijackers that can be deployed with a 99.999% ratio given past hijacking attempts. Here it is: If Muslims don't fly, Americans won't die.

  4. Re:Discrimination by e_pluribus_funk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "I, for one, am never going to the US if I can possibly avoid it."

    Good, we don't want you over here.

  5. Re:Discrimination by DataCannibal · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Whover modded this as unsightful must be a thick as the person who wrote the comment.

    How were Osama bin Laden, a rich (former)Saudi Arabian, or any of the middle class college boys who flew the aircraft tyrannised by the US.

    You obviously come from the Michael Moore school of "Never let an in-depth analysis get in the way of a glib slogan".

    Glib slogans as solutions to problems is a method perfected by the Nazis.

    You and your moderators are about as insightful as a bag full of uninsightful things.

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    No but, yeah but, no but...