Originally Posted by
cottonmather0
No, the TDC cannot check your name against the list. But there are other places in the process where your name is checked against the list which could easily be thwarted by simply using a boarding pass with a name other than the passenger's own. So, in addition to revenue protection for the airlines, the TDC checking your boarding pass and ID is intended to prevent someone on the list from gaining access to the secure area using a boarding pass that wasn't originally issued in his own name.
So, like I said, I don't agree with the underlying policy - at all - but there is a logical reason why they match boarding passes to ID's.
No. If the screeners perform their stated tasks, no one is entering the sterile area with the means to jeopardize aviation safety. NO ONE. It doesn't matter who it is, the most dastardly villain of all time or an unwitting pawn or a completely innocent person. He/she will not have taken the
means of compromising aviation security through the checkpoint.
Of course, someone could pass the TDC with fake IDs (the Israelis used fake Australian passports to get into Dubai to conduct an assassination, IIRC). Fake IDs are
not a hazard to aviation safety.
Hint: there's no similar ID check at airports worldwide. Perhaps because checkpoint security there is not a dragnet for crime and revenue protection, it is focused on one mission, and only one: the security of the aircraft.