[90568] in Cypherpunks
Re: Flight 007 and our Civil Liberties
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Thu Nov 20 03:36:47 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971118231158.00712378@popd.ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:33:55 -0800
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
>>So, these were the two big events which stimulated the FAA, under higher
>>orders, to require mandatory ID of all travelling passengers. And more
>>multimillion dollar sniffers to be installed in airports.
What funny about the sniffers is that they can undoubtedly be fooled by=
almost any compounds (e.g., ammonium nitrate) having the hydrogen-nitrogen=
bond signature common to most all explosives. Tricksters will undoubtedly=
have fun dusting the lobbies of airports with such chemicals an watching=
the resulting fun and confusion.
--Steve
