MIT students Samidh Chakrabarti and Aaron Strauss have written a paper titled Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System which details how a terrorist cell with a diverse enough population could evaluate the probability for increased scrutiny at airline checkpoints given to each of their members at no risk, and then send the low probability members through the system undetected. Essentially this paper says that completely random searches would be more effective.

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