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+-   Terror Watchlist 'Crippled by Technical Flaws'-> on Monday August 25 2008, @06:55PM I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

Submitted by I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property on Monday August 25 2008, @06:55PM
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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The database used by the government to generate lists like the No-Fly List is 'crippled by technical flaws' according to the chairman of a House technology oversight subcommittee. Worse, the upgrade may be worse than the original, with Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) saying that the upgrade, 'if actually deployed will leave our country more vulnerable than the existing yet flawed system in operation today.' It seems that the existing database doesn't have any easy way to do plain text matching, forcing users to enter SQL queries. That might not sound so bad until you find out that the database contains 463 poorly-indexed tables. How long until there's a terrorist named Robert'); DROP DATABASE; — ?"
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