Hmm well I thought I'd read the entire thread before posting, to see if what I've read/heard on the news has been posted yet.

Yes SSSS is going away. However, selective screening is NOT. What is going to happen (from what I read anyways), is that the airlines are working to go to a 3D barcode method to make it "harder for fake boarding passes to be made".

So in other words, instead of having your boarding pass looked at and deciding whether it says SSSS on it, the 3D barcode gets scanned and the ID gets matched to the barcode reader. Does SSSS disappear? Its possible that the selective screening will likely show up on the reader and the person will still get sent to the "other" line.

So yes its going away, is selective screening? QUite possibly not.