UK Immigration Officer Puts Wife on the No-Fly List
 

Just recieved this in the latest issue of Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351937/Immigration-officer-fired-putting-wife-list-terrorists-stop-flying-home.html

Schneier's comments on the article:

"A UK immigration officer decided to get rid of his wife by putting her on the no-fly list, ensuring that she could not return to the UK from abroad. This worked for three years, until he put in for a promotion and -- during the routine background check -- someone investigated why his wife was on the no-fly list.

Okay, so he's an idiot. And a bastard. But the real piece of news here is how easy it is for a UK immigration officer to put someone on the no-fly list with *absolutely no evidence* that that person belongs there. And how little auditing is done on that list. Once someone is on, they're on for good.

That's simply no way to run a free country."

Makes you really wonder about who's running our security apparatus and how really effective it is.

:rotfl2:

I'm sorry but that just made me laugh really hard. (That a husband would go that far to keep his wife away).

Other then that it kind of shows how sad of a state we're in right now. :nope:

What a tosser he was.

Is "tosser" good or bad? English English is always difficult to decipher. :DL

translates to the german word for a s s hole...

And the problem is...???

Here you go August. :DL :up:


Tosser... Noun. An idiot, a contemptible person. Also, occasionally spelt tossa

And Tossbag... Noun. A contemptible or worthless person

Thanks! Slang etymology has always interested me and the English are very prolific in that area.