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What the DHS Knows About You
Sherri Davidoff writes "Here's a real copy of an American citizen's DHS Travel Record, retrieved from the US Customs and Border Patrol's Automated Targeting System and obtained through a FOIA/Privacy Act request. The document reveals that the DHS is storing: the traveler's credit card number and expiration; IP addresses used to make Web travel reservations; hotel information and itinerary; full airline itinerary including flight numbers and seat numbers; phone numbers including business, home, and cell; and every frequent flyer and hotel number associated with the traveler, even ones not used for the specific reservation."
What?? No shoe size? What's the point of taking off your shoes at the checkpoint then?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
If they have that much useless detail on everyone, chances are they won't be able to actually find anything in it. Yay for security through obscurity.
On the other hand, someone's probably going to break in and get all those credit card numbers...
Absolutely right! You wouldn't believe the number of hookers and the amount of blow needed to keep up our morale here at DHS.
What if Richard Reid had been the Underwear Bomber instead of the show Bomber?
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Now now, you're forgetting the most diffcult one "[x] I have not committed genocide"
Ya see - I always knew Bush's speech impediment would cause this sort of confusion. It's all because nobody could ever tell whether he was saying tourist or terrorist, so they decided to play it safe! ;)
How is having Credit Card going to help if it's stolen by the mugger??? :)
Of course they might spend less than my other half
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And that is why I only trust Nigerians to handle my financial affairs.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
http://cube1986.blogspot.com/2008/11/airport-security-dont-bother-asking.html
such gems as :
'are you seeking to engage in immoral activity'
-well, what if I plan to cheat on my wife with my pa? does that mean I can't come in
'are you involved in espionage'
-doh; what did they tell me to answer to this one in spy school? er...
'do you have a mental disorder'
-Gary McKinnon claims asbergers syndrome. Does that mean he can't come in?
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Now now, you're forgetting the most diffcult one "[x] I have not committed genocide"
I knew my Nethack playing days would come back to haunt me!
'do you have a mental disorder'
Why yes, yes I do. I'm a pathological liar on questions like this one.
I am officially gone from
What, they trying to elicit a charge of perjury or something based on the answers to these questions? If so, why not ask people "Have you stopped beating your wife? [Y/N]'
Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
Yeah, I liked travelling to the US better when all I had to do was check the correct boxes on the amusing green form:
[x] I am not a terrorist [x] I am not planning a child abduction in the US
I visited the US before 9/11:
[x] I am not a communist
If you leave that last one unchecked it might now get you invited to become one of Obama's "advisors".
Get a non-xenophobic country,
But I'd have to reroll for that, and I've got too much rep grinding invested into this toon.