Originally Posted by
spacev1986
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.
It's far easier than you seem to think to generate a fake barcode. The schemes for state ID barcodes are all open standards. There's a website where you can scan your ID barcode and decode it in seconds to see what information is there. Spending money on barcode scanners is not the answer to anything.