Airport Profiling

[supergee]

Bruce Schneier knows why it doesn't work.

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[0jack]

The system remains broken. :p CNN featured a story this morning in which a young family was removed from a Jet Blue flight because their frickin' adorable 18-month-old daughter was flagged as a potential terrorist. Given that it's now claimed to be a computer error, it seems to me that if mom hadn't been in hijab and dad hadn't been brown-skinned, they wouldn't have been hauled off the plane before someone worked out that it wasn't correct. For bonus points, mom and dad were born and raised in NJ.

[supergee]

Your faith in their common sense may be excessive.

[0jack]

More my faith in their inability to classify people beyond brown(danger!) and not-brown(friendly!).