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Update: TSA’s Secure Flight Program Suspended

Not only was the Secure Flight program blasted by the GAO, it has been suspended altogether!

An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

An ambitious program to check every domestic airline passenger’s name against government terrorist watch lists may not be immune from hackers, a congressional investigator said Thursday.

And because of security concerns, the government is going back to the drawing board with the program called Secure Flight after spending nearly four years and $150 million on it, the Senate Commerce Committee was told.

Transportation Security Administration chief Kip Hawley did not say whether any security breaches had been discovered. An agency spokeswoman, Amy von Valter, told reporters, “We don’t believe any passenger information has been compromised.”

posted by Fergie @ 2/09/2006 04:17:00 PM