Checking ID is a valid security measure? Checking ID isn't a security measure at all. Fake IDs are easier to get than real ones (and look just as good), and fake identities matched to real IDs are only slightly more difficult. Boarding passes are even easier to forge than IDs.

Since the ID checker is not validating the name to the ID to a list, there are far too many moving parts between the airline's list check and the person appearing at the checkpoint for the process to add value to security.

It's pure theater, and an easy production to stage for the benefit of the sheeple and the airline's bottom line.

Unless, of course, you were commenting on the ID check being a valid security measure to protect against unauthorized ticket transfers - which it is, since hardly anyone would go to the trouble of forging an ID to take one trip using another person's ticket.

Forging identities is child's play. I can either make a trip to the 'hood' and get it done there, or I can go all out - buy citizenship from a country like Belize with a new name, then use that Belize passport to apply for a drivers license in a state without visa requirements (Hawai'i, for one), and voila - a valid drivers license with my photo, a real address and a totally fake name.

These security measures will never catch the well prepared and determined.