[privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism

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This is definitely a moronic, republican, Americanistic, right-winged, and blinding example of the type of minds that rule our existing government. 



On Saturday, December 02, 2006 11:42 AM, Brian Loe wrote:
>
>Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:42:41 -0600
>From: Brian Loe
>To: Drsolly <drsollyp at drsolly.com>
>Subject: Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism
>
>On 12/2/06, Drsolly <drsollyp at drsolly.com> wrote:
>
>> > I didn't read anything about fully automated systems that *do*
>> > anything. Its not as if it scores you and then directs a gun to shoot
>> > you based on that score. Much like my spam filter - it moves the
>> > suspected message to a folder called "spam" and then I go in and
>> > delete it, after I've verified it to be so.
>>
>> Hmm, so you're profiling your email.
>>
>
>
>Aren't you?! I don't have a problem with profiling of any kind, not
>only because I am the least effected by such work but because
>profiling enables those in charge of finding the bad guys to narrow
>and better focus their attentions. It can not be relied on completely,
>and broader measures must be taken, but it will find the bad guys more
>quickly than, say, strip searching the 90 year old, medal of honor
>winner...don't ya think?
>
>You are/were an anti-virus programmer right? Did you just delete
>suspected files or did you quarantine them? Was that quarantine based
>on "profiling" (signatures)? I don't want a system that shoots people
>or deletes files and messages, but I do want it to identify those
>which are suspected of needing to be shot or deleted.
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