{"id":301,"date":"2004-11-24T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=301"},"modified":"2009-04-12T18:52:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T22:52:53","slug":"profile-hinky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/11\/24\/profile-hinky\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile: ‘hinky’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Schneier on Security: Profile: ‘hinky’<\/a><\/p>\n

Some very good points here. Let me take two paragraphs in particular and add my emphasis:
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The problem with computerized passenger profiling is that it simply doesn’t work. Terrorists don’t fit a profile and cannot be plucked out of crowds by computers.<\/strong> Terrorists are European, Asian, African, Hispanic, and Middle Eastern, male and female, young and old. Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, was British with a Jamaican father. Jose Padilla, arrested in Chicago in 2002 as a “dirty bomb” suspect, was a Hispanic-American. Timothy McVeigh was a white American. So was the Unabomber, who once taught mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. The Chechens who blew up two Russian planes last August were female. Recent reports indicate that Al Qaeda is recruiting Europeans for further attacks on the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And again:<\/p>\n

But the ACLU has it wrong. Behavioral assessment profiling isn’t the problem. Abuse of behavioral profiling is the problem<\/strong>, and the ACLU has correctly identified where it can go wrong. If policemen fall back on naive profiling by race, ethnicity, age, gender — characteristics not relevant to security — they’re little better than a computer.<\/strong> Instead of “driving while black,” the police will face accusations of harassing people for the infraction of “flying while Arab.” Their actions will increase racial tensions and make them less likely to notice the real threats. And we’ll all be less safe as a result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

-Keithius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The problem with computerized passenger profiling is that it simply doesn’t work. 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