DHS Makes A Mess Out Of No-Fly Mess

Posted on by Anil Polat

It seems as thought the DHS has decided that perhaps all of the people on the no-fly list might not be terrorists after all.

So, you can now attempt to get off the no-fly list, if you dare:

  1. First off, the page isn’t off of the dhs.gov site but instead run by a third party. That url, which has been taken down was this: rms.desyne.com
    A ton of spoof sites have already been making the rounds.
  2. To attempt to get off of the no-fly list you have to enter in all sorts of personal information. Good thing the page is not encrypted (via SSL) in case you are a terrorist all of the personal information you enter will float oh so easy-to-read across the very safe place known as the Internet.

I really hate to get on the government-is-stupid bandwagon…but aside from all of the technical bloopers, why should innocent people go out of their way to get off of a list that has been shown to be full of problems?

Shouldn’t the innocent citizens wrongly put on the list be contacted in person?

Guess it would be possible if the no-fly list weren’t so long.