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Anons, What if Q Team was pointing us to Whitelisting vs. Blacklisting : Isn't Google now censoring Jay Perry info??!!

"The whitelist/blacklist debate is far older than computers, and it's instructive to recall what works where. Physical security works generally on a whitelist model: if you have a key, you can open the door; if you know the combination, you can open the lock. We do it this way not because it's easier – although it is generally much easier to make a list of people who should be allowed through your office door than a list of people who shouldn't–but because it's a security system that can be implemented automatically, without people.

To find blacklists in the real world, you have to start looking at environments where almost everyone is allowed. Casinos are a good example: everyone can come in and gamble except those few specifically listed in the casino's black book or the more general Griffin book. Some retail stores have the same model – a Google search on "banned from Wal-Mart" results in 1.5 million hits, including Megan Fox – although you have to wonder about enforcement. Does Wal-Mart have the same sort of security manpower as casinos?

National borders certainly have that kind of manpower, and Marcus is correct to point to passport control as a system with both a whitelist and a blacklist. There are people who are allowed in with minimal fuss, people who are summarily arrested with as minimal a fuss as possible, and people in the middle who receive some amount of fussing. Airport security works the same way: the no-fly list is a blacklist, and people with redress numbers are on the whitelist…."

https:// www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/01/whitelisting_vs.html