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On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:36:47 +0200, Gilles Tran wrote:
> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospam com> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 4845fdf0$1@news.povray.org...
>> We must've read the same article - bbc.co.uk? I do think that there's
>> more to the story than was there. The scary thing is that even as
>> written, it's believable.
>
> Here's the pic of the guy.
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1023560/Man-threatened-arrest-
Heathrow-wearing-Transformers-T-shirt.html
Yeah, didn't look too threatening to me. :-)
> Note that he has a sri lankan name. Since Sri Lanka is home to one of
> the most ferocious terrorist organisations (they had cornered the whole
> "suicide bombing" market until Al Qaeda came along, and they have tried
> to claim the title back since) I wouldn't be surprised that people with
> this background are special targets for the authorities. Perhaps this
> works like some spam filters.
Ah, racial/ethnic profiling at its best. That explains a lot. :-)
> X-Terror-Report:
> * 0.4 M_30 Young male below thirty
> * 2.5 DK_SKIN Person with dark skin
> * 4.5 FROM_TRR_CTRY From: country with lots of terrorists *
> 4.3 CLTH_OFFENS Clothes: wearing potentially offensive message *
> 8.1 BNN_IMG Image: contains banned images including guns, bombs
> and nail clippers
>
> X-Terror-Status: Yes, score=19.8 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_99,M_30
> ,DK_SKIN, FROM_TRR_CTRY ,CLTH_OFFENS,BNN_IMG
You forgot on the BNN_IMG portion of the report that that list also
includes knitting needles. It probably *should* include "big
hands" (since you could cause some serious harm with big hands), but the
real filter doesn't.
Jim
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