Originally Posted by
Combat Medic
The scanner and the booth computer are linked by a standard TCP/IP based network. Therefore the data is being transmitted from the scanner to the booth with systems that don't care of they are going to another room in the same airport or into a datamart in a DC Suburb.
Are you sure this is what CartoonPeril meant? I don't dispute your explanation, but CartoonPeril made it sound more sinister. I'm just curious what he/she meant.
Originally Posted by
Combat Medic
Not needed. I just need access to that wire any where between the scanner and the workstation.
Agreed. And the moment a TSO brings in the necessary hacking equipment into the room, there's cause for concern.
But that's simply not happening.