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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:11:46 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Dr. James J. O'Donnell" <provost () georgetown edu> Date: July 25, 2005 8:00:10 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: middle-aged white females Dave, this one is easy. If the bad guy can discover that middle-aged white females or rosy-cheeked white children under 10 are never being searched, he will figure out how to booby-trap one. We make fun of TSA for its searches of unlikely figures, but by searching the categories we regard as unlikely, they are in fact protecting *all* members of those categories -- and us. Random needs to mean random in order to mean anything, and has to have an appreciably high degree of frequency to be deterrent. For entirely other reasons, customs agents are supposed to pull over every hundredth person who comes through for random screening,and I suspect there are some years of experience for them in figuring out
what's effective. Jim O'Donnell Georgetown U. ------------------------------------- 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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