Terror Watchlist "Crippled By Technical Flaws"

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The database used by the government to generate lists like the No-Fly List is 'crippled by technical flaws,' according to the chairman of a House technology oversight subcommittee. And the upgrade may be worse than the original. Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) says that 'if actually deployed, [the upgrade] will leave our country more vulnerable than the existing yet flawed system in operation today.' It seems that the current database doesn't have any easy way to do plain-text matching, forcing users to enter SQL queries. That might not sound so bad until you learn that the database contains 463 poorly indexed tables. How long until there's a terrorist named Robert'); DROP DATABASE; —?"

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Re:Robert'); DROP DATABASE; â"

[hansraj]

Slashdot editors see through your try of getting +5 funny/insightful by linking to xkcd. They have upgrades the xkcd meme to be part of story now. Soon all slashdot summaries will contain "I for one../In soviet Russia../Freaking sharks" etc too.

I, for one, welcome our meme neutralizing slashdot editor-overlords.

Re:This is what happens when you go for the lowest

[Anonymous Coward]

It's actually what happens when you let niggers write software.

Niggers.

Re:Data integrity?

[Anonymous Coward]

Please do explain how data INTEGRETY is affected by the way you define indexes

If you don't understand that, then do everyone a favor, and don't work on databases anyone would use until you do. What even more pathetic is that some fool marked your 'question' as 'interesting'.