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more on Airport lockers, fingerprints, and privacy -- more details, questions [priv]
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:11:37 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:50:59 -0800 To: <dave () farber net> Cc: <lauren () vortex com> Subject: Re: [IP] more on Airport lockers, fingerprints, and privacy -- more details, questions [priv]
"This highly secure method ensures that the person who rented the locker is the person who retrieves its contents" -- how does this improve security? All it does is prevent a husband from picking up something his wife has checked in a locker. It prevents using lockers as mail drops for exchanges -- but the world is full of usable drops, as real and fictional spies have demonstrated for centuries. And have such drops been implicated in anything lately?
Dave, for that matter, if the system is using a digital photographic technique to "snap" an image of the print, will it accept a *photo* of a print (that is, gummi bear techniques not even required). If so, parties wanting to use such a locker for a drop could simply send a handy image to each other over the Net or transfer it by other simple means. But the entire fingerprint locker idea is useless anyway as far as security is concerned. Just another example of the TSA "make the people think they're safe by x-raying their shoes and taking away their little knives and lighters" silliness. I still assert that a terrorist could do a lot more damage on a plane with items that passengers can still carry on freely -- like a specially modified umbrella (I'm not kidding). The only way that TSA can provide genuine security is by flying planes with passengers only (no baggage of any sort either in the cabin or underneath) and with the passengers themselves chained naked to their seats after being completely x-rayed and subjected to body cavity searches. I wonder what that would do to airline revenues? --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 Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink Audio Features: http://daythink.vortex.com ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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