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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 8:30 pm
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Originally Posted by spotnik
I just want to make sure I understand the general position on this issue....
1. Security experts and frequent flyers complain that TSA's BP/ID checks can be thwarted by forging or altering the boarding passes at home.
2. In response, TSA and the airlines test encrypted boarding passes, which would make it more difficult or impossible for the average person to forge or alter a boarding pass successfully.
3. Some of the same experts and frequent flyers who complained about the forgery problem complain that the new measure may inconvenience them by making it more difficult for them to forge or alter their boarding passes.

Am I missing anything?
yeah like the whole point that none of it adds to security just hassle and alot of expense ontop of the mt Everest sized turd called tsa
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