Originally Posted by
Wally Bird
It isn't even a frivolous security measure. A piece of paper (BP) or laminated plastic (DL) is not a threat. To anything.
An unarmed person boarding a flight fraudulently is well, fraud. Against the airline.
Yes, it is.
But as long as someone (TSA? DHS? Congress?) insists that passenger names be checked against the No Fly List and/or the Selectee List, and boarding passes are used as evidence of that check having been performed, then a person fraudulently boarding a flight has not been checked against the No Fly List ... thereby making it a security issue.
And, yes, one can trivially circumvent that check in any number of other ways. A leaky security measure is still a security measure, though ... no matter how leaky it is.