Originally Posted by
spacev1986
Ticket/ID checking: This is the one area where MAJOR improvements in security can be made with minimal hassle to the passengers. For starters, all boarding passes should be scanned. Its way to easy to photoshop a fake boarding pass. Secondly, all ID's should be scanned. You can easily fake whats visible on an ID. Its hard to fake the information on it. most people caught with fake passports crossing the border are caught because the name encoded on the Machine readable zone doesnt match the name printed on the face of the passport.
This made me laugh and also question how much you actually know about this stuff. The machine readable strips are incredibly EASY to fake, usually much easier than the holographic front side of the ID. Even the more recent encoded tag types are still simple to fake. If someone is even remotely competent at making IDs they will know how to fake this. The TSA loves to act like there is a master mind terrorist plot around every corner, but also apparently thinks that these same terrorists are complete morons. Spending millions of dollars and years in planning, only to be foiled by a card reader.