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Old Dec 19, 2007 | 4:06 pm
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Originally Posted by goalie
Superguy beat me to it.

it is a much safer bet and other than my i/d being gov't issued, valid (meaning non-expired), the name matching the one on my bp and the picture being one of me, any other info is none of the tsa's business.

now, if the tsa truly wants to get it right, have a device that reads the mag-stripe on the back of the d/l (similar to customs reading the micr line of a passport). you can get a bogus d/l but 9/10 times the fake d/l will be very good and will pass the black-light test but the mag-stripe will have no data. oh wait, this part makes too much sense.
Actually not MICR on the passport, but OCR.

MICR = Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (like on a check)
OCR = Optical Character Recognition

As far as a fake ID, from my college days I recall that the magnetic stripes are on most DL's not encrypted and have simple text. Don't think a magnetc stripe is a good idea-- have you ever had a credit card demagnetized?!?
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