{"id":194953,"date":"2008-08-06T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/homeland-security-suspends-trusted-traveler-program\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T04:02:00","slug":"homeland-security-suspends-trusted-traveler-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/homeland-security-suspends-trusted-traveler-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security Suspends Trusted Traveler Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verified Identity Pass, Inc., which operates the &#8220;Clear&#8221; program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2008\/08\/aclu-guest-post-trusted-traveler.html\">lost 33,000 customers\u2019 records when an <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">unencrypted<\/span> laptop was stolen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While it was recovered a week later, what happened to the data is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Among the data was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Names<\/li>\n<li>Addresses<\/li>\n<li>Birth dates<\/li>\n<li>Driver&#8217;s license, passport and green card data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which one could describe as an &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">identity theft kit<\/span>&#8221; for 33,000 people, and since the program also collects the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Credit card information<\/li>\n<li>Digital photo <\/li>\n<li>Digital images of all of the applicant&#8217;s fingerprints and his or her irises<\/li>\n<li>Previous home addresses for the past five years<\/li>\n<li>Digital images of passports and driver&#8217;s licenses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It could have been <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">much<\/span> worse.<\/p>\n<p>Security expert Bruce Schneier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/clear_registere.html\">analyzes<\/a> this sort of &#8220;trusted traveler&#8221; program, and finds it wanting from a security standpoint:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I think of Clear as a $100 service that tells terrorists if the F.B.I. is on to them or not. Why in the world would we provide terrorists with this ability?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verified Identity Pass, Inc., which operates the &#8220;Clear&#8221; program lost 33,000 customers\u2019 records when an unencrypted laptop was stolen. While it was recovered a week later, what happened to the data is unclear. Among the data was: Names Addresses Birth dates Driver&#8217;s license, passport and green card data Which one could describe as an &#8220;identity &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,1061,982,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","category-security","category-stupid","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}