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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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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! ;)
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.
'do you have a mental disorder'
Why yes, yes I do. I'm a pathological liar on questions like this one.
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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.