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More Analysis of Anti-Terrorist Countermeasures |
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Thursday, 15 January 2004 |
Bruce Schneier has a good anlysis of both fingerprinting foreigners and the terrorist threat level.
This particular analysis seems more emotional and agressive than Bruce's normal analysis, but overall I think he's right on target.
One additional problem with fingerprinting he dind't mention is the same problem I pointed out with assigning threat levels to individual passengers - how do you secure the system itself?
I thought some more about assigning threat levels to passengers and besides being ineffective what bothers me the most is how the system discriminates on what you might do. This is very close to thought crime prosecution. If the government knows you are an islamic fundamentalist and thinks you might consider terrorism, you're tagged. Our safety in this country is based on prosecuting people for their actions alone. Labeling passengers is wrong and is only marginally better than the Nazis tagging Jews with arm bands.
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