Originally Posted by
TheRoadie
Not sure about elsewhere, but in SAN Terminal 2, the scanner is on the passenger's side of the podium and the screener doesn't get to hold or touch your phone. They didn't have those sorts of podiums at the commuter terminal, though. So you needed paper.
The scribbling is now proven to add no value, since they can't scribble on phones. So why did they EVER do it?
In some places it's not a scribble, it's a rubber stamp.