Re: TIA redux - U.S. rates travelers for terror risk

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"A good database doesn't replace good people and processes. Gasp."

True, and we've had difficulties on all three for five years now.



Matthew Montano wrote:

> The prevailing theory in the u.s. that providing the illusion of
> security is the security that is provided has gone way out of whack...
> 
> Not only do large databases of personal information have inherit
> problems (how many amex card offers do you get in the mail when you
> already have three of them?) but this database is being built from
> extracts from databases with known problems and questionable quality
> to begin with.
> 
> And unlike credit agencies, airline res systems etc. there is no
> self-correction mechanism.
> 
> Then it is to be used for nefarious uses.
> 
> A good database doesn't replace good people and processes. Gasp.
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/1/06, RWM <RWM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Then I guess you're not for it, as presently configured.
>>
>>
>>
>> Bryant Petitt wrote:
>>
>> > I am all for this system, except for HMS will screw it
>> > up somehow,
>> > They have screwed up everything else and been totally
>> > a government joke, why should they be confident in
>> > this?
>> >
>> > Bryant Petitt
>> > Cumming, GA
>> > Fan of Sercurity but not of HMS.

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