[IP] MIT statistics professor shoots down Feds' CAPPS II proposal

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:38:37 -0400
> From: Majstoll@aol.com
> To: declan@well.com
> Cc: majstoll@aol.com
> Subject: MIT Sloan School Statistics Professor Shoots Down CAPPS II Proposal
>
> Declan,
>
> FYI for your subscribers:
>
> For anyone who has not had the pleasure of taking one of Professor Arnie
> Barnett's courses, please note that he is a leading expert on the
> statistics of worldwide airline safety.  Quoted often in the US press, he
> was involved in many US interagency and industry efforts to study and
> address airline safety and security long before September 11th 2001, or
> even before the FAA instituted the disingenuous policy of tricking
> Americans into carrying and showing IDs at airports in 1996 when no such
> lawful duty exists even today.
>
> -Mike S.
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> EM E R G I N G  T E C H N O L O G I E S  N E W S L E T T E R -
>                                  July 28, 2003
> ___________________________________________________________
>
> False Hope for Airline Security?
> An expert on aviation safety statistics says a new computer system to 
> screen out terrorists may actually make things easier for them.
> http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_barnett072803.asp

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