Originally Posted by
SATTSO
However, to address your statement, I believe this is a part of risked based screening. You have passengers who you can identify, who have a certain level of trust, thus they are screened less intrusively than others.
You forgot to mention that this will almost certainly result in the intrusiveness of the screening for non-registered passengers being even higher than it is today. The intention will be to drive as many people as possible into the registered program, so that TSA has free license to dig into every corner of their lives in ways that have nothing to do with transportation.
Tentacles in your life, or tentacles in your pants. Take your pick, folks.