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原文传递 Information Security Breach at TSA (Transportation Security Administration): Traveler Redress Website.

题名：	Information Security Breach at TSA (Transportation Security Administration): Traveler Redress Website.
关键词：	passengers, screening, regulations, internal security, policies, homeland security, terrorism, threat evaluation, federal law, security procedures
摘要：	TSA was created on November 19, 2001, just two months after the 9/11 attacks. The agency was charged with day-to-day Federal security screening operations for passenger air transportation. One of its earliest actions was to split the Federal Aviation Administration's watchlist of persons not allowed to board commercial airlines into two separate lists: a No-Fly List and a Selectee List. Individuals on the No-Fly List are not allowed to board commercial flights, while travelers on the Selectee List are allowed to board only after additional security screening procedures. TSA does not publicly confirm the names on the lists or the criteria it uses to add names to the lists. According to press accounts, the size of these lists increased rapidly after September 11, 2001, as a variety of government agencies submitted names. One consequence of the growth of the No-Fly and Selectee Lists was the dramatic increase in false positives, cases in which travelers with names identical or similar to names of suspected terrorists were prevented from boarding flights or were singled out for additional security inspections. Well-known false positives include Senator Ted Kennedy, whose name was close to the name of a suspected terrorist, and Catherine Stevens, the wife of Senator Ted Stevens, whose name was similar to Cat Stevens, the former name of the singer Yusuf Islam. Investigations by GAO and the Department of Justice Inspector General have revealed significant inaccuracies in the two watch lists. In June 2005, the Justice Department IG reported a number of weaknesses in the completeness and accuracy of the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) database, the central database maintained by the FBI from which names for the No-Fly Lists are extracted. A 2007 follow-up to this audit found that weaknesses persist in the management of the TSC database and that 43% of the names reported to the TSC are false positives. / Availability Note: Product reproduced from digital image. Order this product from NTIS by: phone at 1-800-553-NTIS (U.S. customers); (703)605-6000 (other countries); fax at (703)605-6900; and email at orders@ntis.gov. NTIS is located at 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA, 22161, USA.
总页数：	u0813；12p
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