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Old Oct 19, 2012, 1:57 pm
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drewguy
 
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Wait - if hacking a barcode is this easy for PreCheck, why isn't it just as easy to hack a barcode for the entire boarding pass? Surely they have some sort of encryption or checkdigit equivalent for the barcode that would spit it out as invalid because it doesn't conform to the algorithm.
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