Slashdot | DHS's 'Secure Flight' Program Proven Insecure

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From: Frode Hegland <[email protected]>
Date: December 24, 2006 6:57:49 AM EST
To: Dave Farber <[email protected]>
Subject: web: Slashdot | DHS's 'Secure Flight' Program Proven Insecure


"News.com is reporting the somewhat unsurprising news that a  
government program we were assured was 'perfectly safe', has actually  
been proven to be a privacy nightmare. The 'Secure Flight' program  
matched air traveler information with commercial databases in the  
interests of national security. The charter for the program  
specifically forbade the TSA from accessing this information; the  
organization got their hands on it anyway. The Department of Homeland  
Security has released a report, detailing these findings and  
analyzing the situation. The News.com piece makes it clear the report  
was released on Friday in an attempt to obscure it from public  
notice; it was only linked to from a DHS subsite, and has not shown  
up on the DHS or TSA main pages"

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