<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by dbaker:
Yes, I'm sure the TSA has a team of monkeys working around the clock analyzing ticket refunding practices looking for a pattern . . . trying to crack the case . . . long into the night!
The intention of requiring a boarding pass in your name to get through security is not to prevent what is being attempted here, but just to reduce the number of people going through security. This allows fewer screeners and equipment to spend more time analyzing the reduced number of people passing through security lines.
Security isn't defeated, you're just defeating the reasonable rule. It's comparable to using the biz or first class lavs when you're in coach. 
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The funny thing is that they spend more time staring at the boarding pass and ID than they do with anything else at the security checkpoint.
At some airports, it's even worse than that -- one person stares at the boarding pass and ID and then says "OK", and then later down the line, an official TSA person stares at the boarding pass and ID
again!
That plus the innumerable banned items list, ridiculously sensitive metal detectors (wouldn't want any guns one inch long getting on board), no re-tries for the metal detector, and insistence on same-sex screening (where's the GBLT outcry?), and it's no wonder the TSA needs tens of thousands of employees and billions and billions of dollars.
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