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MIT statistics professor shoots down Feds' CAPPS II proposal
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 01:23:25 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> [The site requires free registration. --Declan] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------- 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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