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Nov 13, 2008 | 11:21 am
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There is a discussion on the AA forum that AA is in a pilot test with TSA to allow boarding pass on cellphone. Now in effect at ORD, starting at LAX and SNA on Monday. You received a bar code on your cell phone and the TSA scans the bar code. I haven't yet seen it in use, but this means that all boarding passes at those airports will probably have bar code now. No more "MS Word" modifications.
Nov 13, 2008 | 11:26 am
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There is a discussion on the AA forum that AA is in a pilot test with TSA to allow boarding pass on cellphone. Now in effect at ORD, starting at LAX and SNA on Monday. You received a bar code on your cell phone and the TSA scans the bar code. I haven't yet seen it in use, but this means that all boarding passes at those airports will probably have bar code now. No more "MS Word" modifications.
This "enhancement" has little to do with actual security, it's more out of the airlines eliminating another cost -- of manpower, paper/ticket stock and/or printers.
As for the security aspect of it, where there's a will, there's a way.
Nov 13, 2008 | 11:32 am
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Sorry, I was typing quickly in OP. I don't think that ID is security at a significant level, and I didn't mean that a determined professional can't find a way around this. Even I have already figured out a couple. BUT, it means that the idea of "removing" an SSSS, for example, won't work.
Nov 13, 2008 | 3:49 pm
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I think CO has been doing this for awhile.
This "enhancement" has little to do with actual security, it's more out of the airlines eliminating another cost -- of manpower, paper/ticket stock and/or printers.
As for the security aspect of it, where there's a will, there's a way.
This "enhancement" has little to do with actual security, it's more out of the airlines eliminating another cost -- of manpower, paper/ticket stock and/or printers.
As for the security aspect of it, where there's a will, there's a way.
