TSA Tests Automated ID Authentication

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 22, 2012 @11:40AM from the thanks-bruce dept.

CowboyRobot writes "Last year, a Nigerian man boarded a plane from N.Y. to L.A. using an invalid ID and a boarding pass issued to another person. A week later he was caught again with 10 expired boarding passes. In response to this and similar events, the Transportation Security Administration has begun testing a new system at Washington's Dulles International Airport that verifies an air traveler's identity by matching photo IDs to boarding passes and ensures that boarding passes are authentic. The test will soon be expanded to Houston and Puerto Rico."

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Re:a first by Idarubicin · 2012-04-22 15:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I don't know what's more disappointing--that you put Martin Niemöller up next to Ayn Rand and pretended that those quotes pulled out of context belong side by side, or that someone with mod points didn't know better than to tag your post as 'Insightful'.
Rand's philosophy embraced selfishness as its highest ideal.

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