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2004-08-08 Home Front: WoT

Cancellation of CAPPS Signals Return to Pre-9/11 Mentality

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-08-08 10:35:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Whatever else being said, CAPPS II was like a dead raccoon under the porch. A system with little restraint on who could input into it, no central controlling authority, and no way to have erroneous information purged, is NOT a system.
That nobody would take responsibility for this thing should be a major cue that there was something seriously wrong with it. In practice, it was almost like randomly prohibiting people from flying because someone, somewhere had suggested at some time that they, or somebody with a similar name, might be a problem.
I believe it was even abused by some local governments to try an nick people at the airport who had outstanding traffic citations and nonsense like that. "You can't fly because you have an unpaid parking ticket."

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-08-08 1:17:33 PM|| 2004-08-08 1:17:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 This system was useless as a "screening" method. Just a bad idea and money pit with abuse writ all over it. I am damm happy it's dead.

Posted by FlameBait93268 2004-08-08 2:36:47 PM|| 2004-08-08 2:36:47 PM|| Front Page Top

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