[IP] more on Web Site Lets Anyone Create Fake Boarding Passes
Begin forwarded message:
From: Jennifer Knight <jargonslinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 1, 2006 9:58:14 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Web Site Lets Anyone Create Fake Boarding
Passes
From: john kemp <john.kemp@xxxxxxx>
- Check that your ID matches your boarding pass, and that your ID
photo looks like you.
Actually, I've flown many times, crossing TSA security checkpoints
for both international and domestic flights, and the fact is that my
passport is in a different name than my boarding pass (I've married
since the issue and the name change is stamped on the very back page
of the passport). I hadn't even noticed this until I was discussing
some of the issues commonly addressed on IP with my husband, we like
to think about actual vs practical, or perceived vs effective
security systems. So, it is absolutely not the case that my ID
matches my boarding pass, so far as the quick glance of the TSA agent
(without flipping to the back page) is concerned.
But I suspect this is no real or direct reduction in practical
security. As many have stated, if we assume the security screen is
effective, it matters little wrt security who actually passes
through. I've always suspected that the reason the regulations limit
such passage to people with boarding passes is a direct economic
response to the increased security regulations. If it costs to allow
people to pass, it makes sense to somehow limit passage, and in this
case I have to admit, limiting passage based on a need to go basis is
not unwise.
However, I am not privy to the "classified" knowledge that makes
these increased regulations make sense, so my above argument does
little to soothe my nerves. Also, I agree that making these fake
passes easily available is as intellectually inspired and socially
productive as quickly spraying ones sign on a piece of architecture;
it is shock value schadenfreude.
-jen.knight
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