Boing Boing has stories on not one but two five-year-olds whose names are on the no-fly list and so get treated by the TSA as a security threat. Cory Doctorow comments
You know, if you wanted to systematically discredit the idea of a Department of Homeland Security, if you wanted to make an utter mockery of aviation safety, you could not do a better job than this.
although I think that’s not giving the TSA enough credit: DHS continuing to employ the company that wrote the TSA web site filled with vulnerabilities asking for traveller’s social security numbers and other personal information is equally effective at discrediting themselves.
jon | 15-Jan-08 at 10:37 pm | Permalink
Amusingly, the TSA has a “mythbusters” page where they say “No 8-year-old is on a TSA watch list. Airlines can and should automatically de-select any 8-year-olds out there that appear to be on a watch list.” Well, sure, 8-year-olds are no threat, but you gotta watch those 5-year-olds.
There’s a good discussion about this on Bruce Schneier’s blog.