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Old Feb 13, 2009 | 7:42 pm
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Originally Posted by Loren Pechtel
Because you can book your ticket under a false name and avoid the no-fly list. Your ID is only checked against your boarding pass, not your ticket.
This adjustment is still a waste -- aside from ID still not being security, these stupid blacklists remain readily circumventable even with ID checks being run against electronically-displayed boarding pass info (even when it includes an encrypted authentication method).

Stupid waste of money.
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