[IP] U.S. announces "scrapping" of CAPPS II airline security plan

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Date: July 15, 2004 11:35:15 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: lauren@vortex.com
Subject: U.S. announces "scrapping" of CAPPS II airline security plan

Dave,

You'll be seeing a bunch of stories today about Homeland
Security announcing that the CAPPS II airline passenger system
won't be getting off the ground, according to Homeland Security's
chief Tom Ridge.

However, look at these stories with care.  It has also been
announced that CAPPS II may (in the time-honored tradition of Total
Information Security, etc.) appear again in a "repackaged, renamed"
form after additional work and study.  So despite Ridge's
"driving a stake" gesture at the announcement, or the suggestion
that the "registered traveler" program (which has its own
significant risks) might replace the need for anything like CAPPS II,
it's quite possible that something like CAPPS II, under a different
name, may re-emerge from its grave.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@pfir.org or lauren@vortex.com or lauren@privacyforum.org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - 
http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, Fact Squad - http://www.factsquad.org
Co-Founder, URIICA - Union for Representative International Internet
                     Cooperation and Analysis - http://www.uriica.org
Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy

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