Aaron Strauss

Unfortunately, critics contend that inaccurate commercial credit data could lead to false positives, while MIT grad students Aaron Strauss and Samidh Chakrabarti conducted a study concluding that terrorists could use the original CAPPS' open scrutiny to thwart both it and CAPPS II.

According to a paper by Samid Chakrabarti and Aaron Strauss of MIT, any profiling system can be beaten if terrorists are minimally competent enough to find somebody who doesn't fit the profile.

Aaron Strauss aaronbs@mit.edu

Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System by Samidh Chakrabarti and Aaron Strauss
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Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System by Samidh Chakrabarti and Aaron Strauss
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Aaron Strauss is a graduate student in computer science at MIT.
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Copyright ©2002, Aaron Strauss
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Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System by Samidh Chakrabarti and Aaron StraussFirst Monday, volume 7, number 10 (October 2002),

Aaron Strauss is an MIT graduate student in political science.He worked in the Dean campaign and designed the vaunted voter database.

Samidh Chakrabarti, 23, and Aaron Strauss, 22, say that using purely random searches would be more effective at catching terrorists.
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Chakrabarti and Strauss came up with the idea for this research while they were taking a class together, jointly offered by Harvard and MIT, called "Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier."
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Laird says Chakrabarti and Strauss make some incorrect assumptions about how the CAPPS system works.
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But Chakrabarti and Strauss answer both these concerns in their paper.
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Chakrabarti and Strauss have made no attempt at contacting the TSA.But they say one civil libertarian who read the paper, told them he gave it to the TSA.
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Aaron Strauss: Co-Author of Study and MIT graduate student in Computer ScienceMassachusetts Institute of Technology