Originally Posted by
ND Sol
An article in the Houston Chronicle this morning discusses the ability now for passengers to show their PDA with their boarding pass on it for checking in and scanning at the TSA screening checkpoint. The program will allow passengers to receive boarding passes electronically, then present bar codes on the screen to be scanned by TSA security officers at the checkpoint.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5349969.html
Yes, another layer of security!
My query is when the TSO scans and verifies the boarding pass info, what is the info tied to and is it kept in a system?
My query is how long before it becomes "mandatory"... oh, wait, since it'll be the same barcode as applied to the boarding pass, the TSA will now scan boarding passes at the checkpoint and at gate checks....
Originally Posted by AP article
The encrypted data is a sort of summary of passenger information. Each paperless boarding pass will display a two-dimensional bar code — which looks like a rectangle of TV snow, as opposed to parallel lines of a traditional bar code — along with passenger and flight information. TSA document checkers will have handheld scanners.
Think of the possibilities. Think of the delays. Think of what happens if you print on an ink jet printer and it gets smudged.
I knew it would only be a matter of time before TSA started cataloging and tracking our every move.
I, for one, have no intention of replacing my cellphone just to accomodate this nonsense.