Originally Posted by
bemis
Two things:
- Most (all?) airlines self-checkin kiosks will let you print a paper boarding pass at the airport. I'm 100% with you here - I'd rather have a boarding pass that can't run out of batteries or reboot just as you need to use it.
- The 'business centers' I've looked at have been rampant with keyloggers and viruses - it's so easy for someone to install a hardware logger back behind the computer where nobody ever looks, and the staff certainly isn't checking it every day. If you do use one of these, I'd treat every password you typed in as compromised. On the whole, it's just not worth it - most people either have their own company laptops or phones to do business on these days - using public, unmaintained computers is just wildly insecure.
Well put. There are always options. If nothing else, if checking a bag, you can get a boarding pass when you check your bag.