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Bruce Schneier on Profiling

By Montag | Related entries in Smart Things Said By Smart People, The War On Terrorism

Security expert Bruce Schneier writes about the use of profiling and why certain types of profiling (e.g. racial profiling) don’t work. It’s well worth the read:
Schneier on Security: Profiling

[Found via the comment section at Philosoraptor.]

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3 Responses to “Bruce Schneier on Profiling”

  1. Joshua Says:
    July 28th, 2005 at 1:20 pm

    This isn’t news to me. As an anti-terrorist tactic, profiling is more or less useless against an enemy that knows how to defeat it. Even the 9/11/2001 hijackers went out of their way to avoid being profiled as pious Muslims (shaving their beards, frequenting bars and strip clubs, etc), much less as would-be Islamic terrorists.

  2. Media Lies Says:
    July 28th, 2005 at 11:41 pm

    I immediately perked up….

    ….when I saw Bruce Schneier mentioned in the context of a discussion on profiling. Schneier is, after all,

  3. antimedia Says:
    July 28th, 2005 at 11:45 pm

    Hmmm….profiling for - expired visas, incorrect use of visas, large amounts of cash, one-way tickets paid for in cash, pilot training paid in cash, not caring about learning to land, being a citizen of countries known to harbor terrorists - none of this profiling would have been successful?

    I somehow doubt it!

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