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[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Subject: TSA passenger checks may be vulnerable
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:01:01 -0800
From: David Pollak <dpp@athena.com>
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>

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http://news.com.com/TSA+passenger+checks+may+be+vulnerable/2100-7348_3-6037741.html?tag=nefd.top

The newest version of the Transportation Security Administration's
proposed system to check the names of airline passengers against
terrorist watch lists could be vulnerable to hackers, the agency said
Thursday.

The agency's chief, Kip Hawley, told a Senate committee that the
long-delayed program, now called Secure Flight, will be delayed again.

The program is supposed to take over from the airlines the job of
checking passenger names against a "watch list." The idea is to reduce
the number of cases in which people with names similar to those on the
watch list are prevented from boarding planes, but civil libertarians
say it would violate passengers' privacy.

The agency has been working on the program for about four years and has
spent at least $140 million.

At a hearing Thursday before the Senate Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science & Transportation, Cathleen Berrick, an auditor at the Government
Accountability Office, said in testimony that Secure Flight "may not be
adequately protected against unauthorized access and use or disruption."

Hawley said his agency's technology office had identified many of the
same problems. Even before the hearing, there was no target date for
turning the system on.

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