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Does profiling in airports work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Izzat Jarudi)
Mon Nov 4 12:51:02 2002
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STUDENT PUGWASH
presents
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How Terrorists can Defeat a Multi-Million Dollar Airport Profiling System
Samidh Chakrabarti & Aaron Strauss
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Thursday, November 7, 7pm Room 4-145
MIT graduate students Samidh Chakrabarti and Aaron Strauss will discuss
their work on the ineffectiveness of computer profiling in airports,
recently featured in the media on the front page of the Tech
(http://www-tech.mit.edu/V122/N48/48secure.48n.html), National Public Radio
News, and WBUR.
Abstract:
In the wake of September 11th, the federal government has dramatically
increased spending on technological measures that promise to improve
airport security. Before even engaging in a debate about whether we should
permit the government to restrict civil liberties in the name of security,
we must ask whether these systems are effective in the first place. In our
talk, we will present our analysis of the Computer Assisted Passenger
Pre-screening System (CAPPS), an FAA software program that uses profiles to
determine which passengers airport security personnel should search more
thoroughly. Through our models and simulation, we will show how a terrorist
cell can easily defeat CAPPS. Our analysis of CAPPS lends further evidence
to the idea that security is best achieved when technologies meant to
protect the public are open to careful inspection by the academic community.
Snacks provided
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