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> Or to use a more scifi spin: Data science says you are 99% likely to blow up a plane. But you have done nothing illegal yet. Now what? People don't blow up p
by growse 6y ago
> Or to use a more scifi spin: Data science says you are 99% likely to blow up a plane. But you have done nothing illegal yet. Now what?
People don't blow up planes by accident. You're either planning to blow up a plane, in which case you have already done a number of illegal things, or you're not, in which case you're 0% likely to blow up a plane.
- Swizec 6y ago> you have already done a number of illegal things Fun thing I learned recently in a Netflix documentary: It used to be legal to be a mafia boss because you weren’t the one doing illegal things. Someone had to fight real hard in the 70’s to create a new law that made it illegal to tell others to commit crimes. It was legal to own C4 that doesn’t smell until 1996. A new law after a series of bombings made it illegal. https://www.atf.gov/explosives/plastic-explosives-reminder https://www.atf.gov/explosives/plastic-explosives-reminder I wonder what’s legal now that will be obviously illegal in 20 years because it leads to future crimes?
- teddyh 6y agoNon-locked-down hardware. https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
- ViViDboarder 6y agoSure, but are those illegal things provable? Maybe someone is flagged based on suspicious searches about explosives and planes. That’s clearly not enough to arrest someone, however might be enough of a concern to stop them for a deeper search when boarding a plane. The theater of everything right now is absurd, but there are reasons for using identity to narrow more narrowly search people who may have some probable cause. My concern with the TSA is that we search everyone, regardless of probable cause.