acroyear | Cringley on CAPPS-II

Worse than TIA, the ultimate personal information database, in the hands of the airlines and the TSA...

Cringley's take:

We should spend less time chasing bad ideas based on unrealistic expectations and spend more time making it harder for terrorists to cause any real harm.

And there is even a side benefit to this approach. If we anticipated the possible attack on a water system and installed some smart improvements, we'd never have an e.coli problem again. We'd never have a water purity problem, either. We would be prepared to keep the contamination from leaving the site, no matter what the cause of the contamination.

I'm inclined to agree...and I'm glad I'm no longer building such anti-privacy systems anymore...