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Airline passenger's details insecureCreated by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on May 4, 2006
The Guardian is carrying an article by Steve Boggan on how insecure airline passenger's details are. He paints the US government as the principal underminer of the privacy and security of the individual's information, but I imagine that a number of organisations on this side of the Atlantic find access to the information very useful too.
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I would have been much happier if Stuart hadn't posted this!
Go ahead and read the short article and marvel at the failure of software projects and ill-considered provisions for security, etc. You'll be better informed, but not happier. :-)
A large part of the problem with projects like these is that theyare seen as technical fixes for political problems, and they juststraight out don't work.
The only technical fixes for political problems I've seen thatactually work involve a fix that hands the problem back to a politicalprocess. Consider for example language codes and country codes usedfor URLs and documents on the Internet. The IETF, the W3C and the IEEEand other standards bodies correctly hand these kinds of issues backto the ISO which has the political connections.