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Registered Traveler Program Open For Business

Posted by timothy on from the look-shiny-things dept.

storem writes "Enrollment into TSA's Registered Traveler program started yesterday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Frequent flyers are given the opportunity to sign up for a fast-track system using biometrics to identify themselves. It seems this is pretty much the same system tested in Europe in the s-Travel program. There frequent flyers carried their biometric identifiers (fingerprint & iris) with them between airports on a smart card (privacy reasons)."

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  1. too much to remember by momogasuki · · Score: 5, Funny

    With my luck, I will show up at the airport and then realize that I left my fingers and iris at home.

  2. Re:Rising cost of terrorism by chaffed · · Score: 5, Funny

    But with the extensive use of blackout dates by the airlines. I think we will be safe everyday but the week you are allowed to use your miles.

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  3. MultiPass by axonal · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can see how insecure this will all wind up being.

    Leeloo Dallas, Multipass.

  4. Wow. I feel really safe. by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Funny
    Could the government FOR ONCE come up with an idea that does not totally EAT MY BALLS?

    You'd think that with the hundreds of thousands of people in government, one could have an idea that actually does what it is supposed to, without ulterior motives?

    Why are we confiscating fingernail clippers? To protect against hijacking, or to touch everyone in some small way and remind them of exploding planes?

    I fail to see how whitelisting white people is going to help anything, other than padding the info of CAPPS, and introducing biometrics to the public -wrapping it in a sense of convenience to help the spread of this insecure ID.

    If I held my breath until our government did something *for* me, rather than to or against me, I'd be goddamn Suffocated Smurf.

  5. Re:Here's an idea by evilviper · · Score: 3, Funny
    shouldn't we concentrate more on doing things to make mad people NOT want to blow us all up?

    Yes, exactly. Everyone who is currently getting instructions from their dog to kill people, gets a coupon for one free popscicle...

    Problem solved!

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  6. Re:Hmm.. by GileadGreene · · Score: 3, Funny
    A bribe here, some blackmail there and viola, a fake card or worse.

    Exactly. I see this being instrumental in preventing the frequent flyer program from taking off ;-)

    (and yes, the second pun is also intended... )