Circumvent the No-fly List in 30 Seconds!
Jan 16, 2012 | 2:41 pm
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Circumvent the No-fly List in 30 Seconds!
Read about it
here.
As the article says, other ways exist of doing the same thing, but for those of you who have Firefox or Chrome, it's trivial. No Photoshop required.
I guess the TSA now does "say your name" to trip up those who use this trick and forget their real name....
here.
As the article says, other ways exist of doing the same thing, but for those of you who have Firefox or Chrome, it's trivial. No Photoshop required.
I guess the TSA now does "say your name" to trip up those who use this trick and forget their real name....
Jan 16, 2012 | 3:25 pm
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Secure flight confirms the name matches the person on the list by birthdate. Birthdates are not printed on boarding passes. The TSA does not check names on IDs against the list. Buy the ticket with a false birthdate, but real name. Print boarding pass and proceed as normally.
Jan 16, 2012 | 11:50 pm
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The governmental workfare workforce's work-farce keeps the dog and pony show going and the show's performers employed. Thousands standing around gates must do something for show/public display lest they get too bored or more persons become more critical of tax dollars wasted; so combine that "need" with a belief that a "random" "show of force" -- much like NYPD's "random" noise pollution from patrol car sirens -- will counter terrorists, and it's not a surprise that this show is put on at airports where the TSA is "in charge".
Last edited by GUWonder; Jan 17, 2012 at 12:02 am
Jan 17, 2012 | 7:48 am
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Didn't the DHS declare the guy who posted how to photoshop a BP an Enemy of The State and seize his computers and arrest him? (Sorry if the memory is fuzzy.)
Originally Posted by OldGoat
Read about it
here.
As the article says, other ways exist of doing the same thing, but for those of you who have Firefox or Chrome, it's trivial. No Photoshop required.
I guess the TSA now does "say your name" to trip up those who use this trick and forget their real name....
here.
As the article says, other ways exist of doing the same thing, but for those of you who have Firefox or Chrome, it's trivial. No Photoshop required.
I guess the TSA now does "say your name" to trip up those who use this trick and forget their real name....
Jan 17, 2012 | 7:53 am
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Which is why they will say they are going to scanners and two dimensional bar code readers, as once you change the name, the boarding pass will no longer be valid. The name printed on the pass will not match the name in the bar code which won't match the ID.
I wouldn't doubt the TSA is spreading this information as a way to get backing for the new systems.
I wouldn't doubt the TSA is spreading this information as a way to get backing for the new systems.
Jan 17, 2012 | 8:10 am
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Does it really matter who's flying if they have no weapons? I thought that was the point? If a murderer, after being released from prison, wants to take a flight, he or she can. 5th degree black belts can. Military can. Police can. My point is, plenty of people who can or have killed people fly every day. So does it really matter who's getting on the plane when the concern should be what's getting on the plane?
Jan 17, 2012 | 10:08 am
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f course it doesn't. But we've now got an awful lot of people in the government hyping the assertion that it does.
Jan 17, 2012 | 11:38 am
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I'm still aware of official capacity to get valid passports in whatever name a person may wish, for under $500,000 at that. Fraudulently-acquired real passports in a non-blacklisted name are also available, and they cost only a few thousand dollars. A very well-informed criminal with a bit of time on the hand could quite readily acquire a real US passport for well under a $1,000 using US federal and.or US state/local government channels.
The TSA's obsession with ID as "security" is just a big sham to keep the TSA workfare workforce busy with workfarce workfare that provides feelings of comfort/security to the ill-informed, paranoid nervous nellies and to the manipulative self-dealers in supposed "public service".
Jan 18, 2012 | 11:49 am
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Basically, yes. Chris S. (an Armenian-American IIRC) has contributed to FT and his name is referenced in the link in the OP.
I'm still aware of official capacity to get valid passports in whatever name a person may wish, for under $500,000 at that. Fraudulently-acquired real passports in a non-blacklisted name are also available, and they cost only a few thousand dollars. A very well-informed criminal with a bit of time on the hand could quite readily acquire a real US passport for well under a $1,000 using US federal and.or US state/local government channels.
The TSA's obsession with ID as "security" is just a big sham to keep the TSA workfare workforce busy with workfarce workfare that provides feelings of comfort/security to the ill-informed, paranoid nervous nellies and to the manipulative self-dealers in supposed "public service".
I'm still aware of official capacity to get valid passports in whatever name a person may wish, for under $500,000 at that. Fraudulently-acquired real passports in a non-blacklisted name are also available, and they cost only a few thousand dollars. A very well-informed criminal with a bit of time on the hand could quite readily acquire a real US passport for well under a $1,000 using US federal and.or US state/local government channels.
The TSA's obsession with ID as "security" is just a big sham to keep the TSA workfare workforce busy with workfarce workfare that provides feelings of comfort/security to the ill-informed, paranoid nervous nellies and to the manipulative self-dealers in supposed "public service".
Jan 18, 2012 | 6:18 pm
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Except that there are no terrorists. As somebody far more brilliant than me posted on another website, "We are a ship of fools sailing on an empty ocean looking for ghosts."
Jan 18, 2012 | 6:33 pm
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Admittedly when I read the posting in this thread I felt very stupid for not being able to see the simplicity of this. Then... I felt angered that my tax dollars are being wasted by folks who should know about this.
Jan 24, 2012 | 1:34 pm
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I'm still aware of official capacity to get valid passports in whatever name a person may wish, for under $500,000 at that. Fraudulently-acquired real passports in a non-blacklisted name are also available, and they cost only a few thousand dollars. A very well-informed criminal with a bit of time on the hand could quite readily acquire a real US passport for well under a $1,000 using US federal and.or US state/local government channels.