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According to this slashdot article, poorly managed databases are preventing many U.S. citizens from boarding domestic flights in their own country. At least nobody can claim they are victimised, because powerfull senators are treated as badly as the old and frail.

It occurs to me that terrorists might enhance their terror, merely by changing their names to match those of leading politicians. For example, a terrorist organisation could exert a very “asymmetric threat” by adopting the names of pro-government politicians and campaign managers in the months before a general election. I imagine it would be hard to run a nationwide election if you were prevented from flying anywhere. Once those nasty terrorist/freedom-fighter types discover this, the “No Fly List” system will be turned against the people that created it.