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retentive

I met a person today who had to try to peel every bit of the label off the nescafe lid before he felt he could make the coffee... In one go, or his day was ruined...

Record Managament and International Security post Abdul Mudallad

So here we are with information management on the back of the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound Delta Airline Flight a hot topic. We just heard that full body scanners capable of capturing video or images of you as if you were naked are to be installed within three weeks of this posting at Heathrow airport (although not at the other UK international airports yet, according to Alan Johnson, bizarrely). I just listened to the US ex-head of homeland security saying the problem with the Nigerian / Yemen-sourced bomb plot on a Delta Airline flight was not with the intelligence that was gathered, but with the (in)ability to synthesise it at the right time and place. This makes sense when you consider that the US - watch list contains approaching 1,000,000 names, while the "No-fly" list is maintained separately. Apparently the bomber - Abdul Mudallad - appeared in the Watch list, but not the no fly list, so his movements were effectively only limited by his inability to trav