What's in a name?

The spelling of a Middle Eastern name is why no one knew the nicker bomber had a valid entry visa for the U. S.. I wonder if the middle eastern names will get standard spellings after this. That or an algorithm for finding similarly pronounced names with different spellings might be in order. There is technology that does this in other programs.

It is always going to be something trivial and stupid that lets the bad buys through. People think of all the big complex things and try to counter them or at least deal with them in some way. It is the simple stuff that bites you in the ass. The devil is in the details. How old is that saying? It is true in spades in an information age. This is just one metric. Who knows what little detail will cause the problem next.

the difference between steel and iron is that you do not knock the charcoal off the steel between foldings from the forge. Simple. it took thousands of years to catch on. With all other metals, you need to go ahead and knock off the charcoal. Iron/steel is different.

Maybe some people need to be treated differently than others. These differences will are defined by some kind of attribute like shifty eyes, clenched hands. nerves tick or any million actions that people perform every moment.

I like a formula that I heard on on a podcast. If you have 100 people in line for a plane, you have a maximum potential of 100 terrorists to filter. You have a nearly infinite number of ways a terrorist might sneak something on the plane to cause a problem.