Originally Posted by
TerminalBliss
Checking IDs is indeed a valid security measure. The method by which it's currently implemented, with the lack of a real time means to compare names to a database, certainly doesn't enhance security by any stretch of the imagination.
TB
Checking IDs is not a valid security measure in this context -- especially when you bring up suicidal terrorists. [You do know that there is no such thing as successful repeat suicide attacker, and so blacklisting known dead people is quite insane. Don't forget that some actual
living terrorists are also purposefully left off the blacklists.]
Furthermore, even with a real-time means of cross-referencing a database doesn't do anything. There are more ways than there are letters in the alphabet to throw off such "real time means to compare names to a database".