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Re: Re: Delta CAPPS-2 watch: decrypt boarding passes!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Fri Mar 7 15:45:17 2003
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From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:35:40 -0500
To: John Ioannidis <ji@research.att.com>
Cc: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>, John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <20030306203441.GB29411@bual.research.att.com>
John Ioannidis writes:
> (they [TSA] still picked up "random" people without the search
> string on their boarding passess).
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH! If this list was to have a subtitle it would be
"Practical uses of randomness". Surely they're rolling dice, or
cutting a well-shuffled deck, or consulting a book of random numbers,
or using some other secure source of randomness. Somebody please tell
me that they're not just picking people "at random". I am reminded of
a six-year-old's idea of randomness: eenie, meenie, miney, moe.
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