More tomfoolery in the name of “security”
Saturday, 12 January 2008 | 65 readers so far
When 9/11 happened, I was horrified by the event itself. However, the long-term results of that single event strike much more of a chord of fear in my heart. Government is too big in the United States and 9/11 was an excuse to grow it to levels no one had tried prior to that terrorist attack. 9/11 birthed the Transportation Security Administration, an organization which does little to nothing to improve security when you fly but has made huge inroads in curtailing freedoms that we used to take for granted.
A House of Representatives panel yesterday released a damning report about a Transportation Security Administration Web site built to address grievances from travelers errantly flagged by the government’s no-fly list. It concluded that cronyism and a lack of oversight exposed thousands of site visitors to identity theft.
The news article quoted above goes on to conclude that the TSA is wasting taxpayers money by awarding no-bid contracts and building web sites that expose the public to malicious use of personal data. Sounds like we are less secure because of the TSA, which is the opposite of what we were promised.
1 January 14th, 2008 at 2:20 am
kitanis says:
TSA and other government agencies have YET to learn their lessons in cyber security.
The Air Force lost a laptop from a unlikely source.. Got a interesting letter saying that both active duty and retiree information was lost.. But don’t worry.. information was Common Access Card secure.. Why am I worried?
2 January 14th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Trevor says:
Because you know the system is only as good as its weakest link. You also know there are lots of weak links.
3 January 14th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Oliver says:
By definition the government is more incompetent and creates more problems than it solves. I’ve lived in 2 countries and this is the truth and the facts.
Why are Americans forgetting the roots of this nation? Those roots made it great. This is sad.