Originally Posted by PTravel

It sounds right to me, too.

Question: What happens if I'm preoccupied or simply not interested in engaging in conversation with a TSO who, like you, I suspect is a BDO? As we both have agreed, a TSO can ask anything he or she wants. However, I am not aware of any enforceable law that requires I respond. I don't know your opinion of the the BDO program, but mine is that it's utterly ridiculous -- I've explained why in other threads and won't go into it again here. My inclination when a state actor asks me something which he has no business either asking or knowing the answer to is to say, more or less politely (depending on the question, the context, and how it's asked), "None of your business."

What happens then?