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An attack on the 'Trusted Traveler' Pass
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D. A. Honig)
Fri Feb 1 14:22:28 2002
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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 11:09:37 -0800
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From: "D. A. Honig" <dahonig@home.com>
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>Some day in the future, maybe a year from now, you may have a "trusted
>traveler" card. Congress wants it, the airlines need it and security
>experts endorse it.
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>The benefits appear clear. With a tool to separate the wheat from the
So does an attack. Befriend someone with such a card, give
her a gift with well hidden, unscented plastique and a barometric
detonator. After some time she takes her planned flight and gets only a
cursory exam. She neglects to mention the gift she's carrying (they don't
even ask the 2 security questions reliably, any more, anyway).
It worked over Lockerbie, it'll work again. The Lockerbie carrier
had the equivalent of a "trusted traveller" card --she was a white
woman.
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