From: Richard M. Smith [rms@computerbytesman.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:10 PM
To: roarkb@torchconcepts.com; schoendorfw@torchconcepts.com;burdickb@torchconcepts.com
Subject: Questions about a Torch Concepts report

Hi,

I have some follow-up questions about the following report which was
produced by Torch Concepts:

   Homeland Security - Airline Passenger Risk Assessment
   http://www.abditum.com/%7erabbi/S3B3_Roark.pdf

Here are my questions:

   1.  How come there was only a 40% success rate for
       looking up JetBlue passengers in the Acxiom
       database?  This percentage seems quite low to me.

   2.  How can any firm conclusions be drawn from
       the experiment given that very little is
       known about 60% of the subjects in the
       experiment?

   3.  Would the subjects who fall into the 60% pool
       where there is no Acxiom data be automatically
       considered "high risk"?  I would assume
       that most known airline terrorist fall into this
       same 60% pool.

Thanks,
Richard M. Smith
http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com