Originally Posted by
doober
Anyone out to do no good is going to buy a ticket with cash or a fraudulently obtained credit card and will have an ID with fraudulent information, whether it be a DL or passport issued with the help of a foreign government. The BP, of course, will match the name on the ID.
Why hassle those who have no ill-intent when a "bad guy" is going to sail on through the ID check and probably the security checkpoint, too, if he has even half of a good brain?
Precisely. Although that degenerate monkey, Bush had us believe that there were thousands of sleeper agents out there testing the system day in and day out, the fact is that the ONLY people printing inconclusively authentic BPs are those that travel frequently, know they are going to get SSSS'd due to a sudden change in plans (or other understood reason) and just want to get through the airport as quickly as possible. It happens hundreds of times a day, it's perfectly legitimate, it doesn't hurt anyone, and the TSA needs to knock this ridiculous idea of implementing encrypted BPs in the bud ASAP. There's far more important things to spend the time and money on.