From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 11:38:50 +0800
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: "Security risks" vs. "credit risks"
In-Reply-To: <ae4e076b0102100432c4@[207.167.93.63]>
Message-ID: <199609010153.UAA22411@manifold.algebra.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text


Timothy C. May wrote:
> There is great danger, to be sure, especially if one's writings and public
> utterances become entries into a "threat data base." But I see nothing
> unsurprising in, say, American Airlines expressing more interest in Jim
> Bell or Tim May, both of whom have written publically about terrorism and
> "soft targets," and both of whom have written about how to make pipe bombs,
> than in Marianne Smith, retired school teacher from Peoria.

... bobbit ... 
> 
> Remember, private airlines are just that: private. Surely we do not support
> laws which limit a private airline from using data it has acquired to
> decide whom to pay closer attention to. This is the essence of what
> knowledge is.
> 

Unfortunately, most private businesses suck up to the government. It 
is understandable if we note that they can be harassed by the government.
Airlines, for example, are under tight and rather arbitrary control of 
the FAA.

	- Igor.