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Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/stu...tm#_Toc9406719
snip We will now present an algorithm that a terrorist cell can employ to increase their probability of mounting a successful attack under the CAPS system as opposed to an airport security system that employs only random searches. The key idea is that a terrorist cell can probe the security system to ascertain which of their members have low CAPS scores. Then they can send these members on destructive missions. Since security manpower is disproportionately spent on people with high CAPS scores, and the operative has a low score, he will most likely face reduced scrutiny. snip As mathematically demonstrated in Section 4.1, the focus of the FAA's efforts to tighten airport security should be augmenting administrative searches that affect everyone that boards a flight. snip -- Nobody but a fool goes into a federal counterrorism operation without duct tape - Richard Preston, THE COBRA EVENT. |
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Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:18:14 GMT, wrote:
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/stu...tm#_Toc9406719 snip We will now present an algorithm that a terrorist cell can employ to increase their probability of mounting a successful attack under the CAPS system as opposed to an airport security system that employs only random searches. The key idea is that a terrorist cell can probe the security system to ascertain which of their members have low CAPS scores. Then they can send these members on destructive missions. Since security manpower is disproportionately spent on people with high CAPS scores, and the operative has a low score, he will most likely face reduced scrutiny. snip On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:10:04 GMT, Dick Locke wrote: This must be designed for the league of dumb terrorists. How's he supposed to get weapons that enable him to enter a cockpit and highjack a plane full of no-longer-passive passengers through standard security? 1. Collusion with folks working groundside to smuggle onboard. 2. Fabrication of weapon from parts which, concealed or in plain sight, pass through DHS screening process. I can think of a few, but a) am disinclined to make life easier for any Clueless Charlie.terrs, and b) the Heimatsicherheitshauptamt would not like my innovations, fer sure. It usta be a free country, and could be again, someday. He if just wants to blow something up and kill a few hundred people there are lots of easier places than a plane. You're right. Let's not discuss specifics here. a) I am disinclined to make life easier for Clueless Charlie.terrs, and b) the Heimatsicherheitshauptamt would not like my innovations, fer sure. -- Nobody but a fool goes into a federal counterrorism operation without duct tape - Richard Preston, THE COBRA EVENT. |
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