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Charges Dropped In Fake Boarding Pass Case

Posted by kdawson on from the free-to-go dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "Investigators have dropped the criminal case against Christopher Soghoian after satisfying themselves that he acted without criminal intent. The grad student had created a web site capable of printing fake airline boarding passes. Soghoian is quoted: 'If they fix the airport security problems... then this entire process has been worth it. If they don't fix airport security, then... what was the purpose?'" Soghoian's blog has insightful comments about the divide between security researchers and government officials on subjects such as TOR.

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  1. Re:Paranoia by ray-auch · · Score: 3, Informative

    100% of the people that have have ever caused harm on an airline have been ragheads.

    Bull.

    Garland Grant (look it up).

    [Only need one counter example to prove your 100% wrong]

  2. Re:Paranoia by Faylone · · Score: 3, Informative

    For the lazy or confused, read here http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_roo m/usab5201.pdf

  3. Umm, not sure about this by refriedchicken · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Soghoian said fake boarding passes wouldn't be an issue if identification was required and checked to travel. The student said he has been able to get on four flights without showing ID."

    I fly across country every other week and have well over 100,000 miles under my belt this year a lone and I have never once gotten through security without my ID. Wrong boarding pass, yes, but it still had my name and matched my ID. And since we have no National ID how does one make sure the the people paid $8 an hour know how to check every state and military ID and look for fakes?

  4. Ummm Hello....Navy by finkployd · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was made perfectly clear during the meeting that parts of the US government, at least the two represented at the meeting, strongly disapprove of Tor - and in particular, thought that research universities such as IU, MIT, Georgia Tech, Harvard and others have no business supporting such projects.

    I wonder how they feel about TOR being a naval research project.

  5. Re:Is security worth the inconvenience? by planetmn · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71115-0.htm l?tw=rss.index

    The Slashdot discussion: http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/ 09/1731249

    -dave

    --
    /., where "Apple and Google provide Iran with nukes" will be refuted with "But Microsoft is a convicted monopolist"
  6. Re:Yeah but... by fotbr · · Score: 3, Informative

    He says he's got his computer back, and will be getting the rest of his stuff back very soon.

    But this is slashdot, where reading isn't a prerequisite to posting.