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You are just one data point.

• darklajid 16y ago
  That's only true in this very limited set here. Add me as a second one: I'm white, male, as uninteresting as it can get (heh..). A little geeky perhaps, but I'm > 30 and every now and then have to prove that I'm > 18 for purchases or contracts. You know - the "Ohhh, you are really an adolescent?" type of guy. I shave every ~2 weeks and you probably cannot tell if I'm one week into the routine if we meet. Still: Every single trip to IL ended with me being on the list of the suspicious people. * I only did business trips and had a letter of the company that expected me (already crap on its own, but.. different thing) * I travelled there several times and I'm sure they are good enough to correlate travelers from our german branch to our headquarter as being "probably genuine" So.. A guy, plain as can be, fitting none of the discussed racial profiles (and no, I'm not shitting my pants during interviews either, so don't start the "you behaved erratic" thing), being targeted everytime: Another datapoint for the problems of the system. I don't know _why_ I was targeted. I can only confirm that for me, every time I fly to Israel, these guys do waste time and money on me (and annoy me in the process, but let's ignore that for now), producing no result. Efficient? Not for me..
  • berntb 16y ago
    That security system is obviously designed with an acceptance of quite a few false positives. (Are you a political extremist?) Maybe harassing you is white noise? (Pun mostly intended.) That is, to throw off attempts to analyze the security?