If We Can't Abolish the No-Fly List, Can We at Least Keep It Safe?

Source: Reason
Published: Jan 26, 2023
Author: Bonnie Kristian
Post Date: 2023-01-26 00:20:02 by Charles_Byrd
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Whoops, we leaked the no-fly list.

And by "we" I mean CommuteAir, a regional airline whose insecure server, accessed by a Swiss hacker named maia arson crimew, included a file helpfully named NoFly.csv, which turned out to be a 2019 version of the U.S. government's no-fly list. The Daily Dot, which first reported on the story, notes that the list has around 1.5 million entries—though many of those are aliases for a much smaller number of individuals—and includes both names and birthdates. It's a subset of the broader Terrorist Screening Database, and both lists are chock-full of civil liberties and due process violations.

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