[IP] Patriot Act search

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:06:47 -0400
> From: Scott Alexander <salex@dsl.cis.upenn.edu>
> Subject: Patriot Act search
> To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
>
> We have refinanced our house and today was the closing.  Among the
> documents we had to look at was a long list of judgments against people
> with names remotely similar to ours.  At the end it was a "Patriot
> Search" statement saying that our names did not appear.  Presumably
> there are two aspects to this.  I suspect that those having a false
> match on this list will not only make flying difficult as previously
> discussed on IP, but will also make getting a mortgage difficult.  OTOH,
> I'd suspect that finding a title company willing to run a few extra
> searches would allow a terrorist cell to find which of their members
> were listed with very little risk.
>
> Best,
> Scott

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