Via Rattle's Abusable Technology meme: Let's say that you're a dangerous Canadian terrorist, ] bearing the clearly suspicious name "Guy Lafleur". Now, ] the American government is aware of your activities and ] puts you on the CAPPS blacklist to stop you from boarding ] the plane. Further, let's assume that you're too ] incompetent to get a fake ID.... You have someone who's ] not on the blacklist buy you a ticket under an innocuous ] assumed name, say "Babe Ruth". This is perfectly ] legitimate and quite easy to do.... Then, the day before ] the flight you go onto the web and get your boarding ] pass. You print out two copies, one with your real name ] and one with the innocuous fake name. Remember, it's just ] a web page, so it's easy to modify. When you go to the ] airport, you show the security agent your "Guy Lafleur" ] boarding pass and your real ID. He verifies that they ] match but doesn't check the watchlist, because his only ] job is to verify that you have a valid-looking boarding ] pass and that it matches your ID. Then, when you go to ] board the plane, you give the gate agent your real ] boarding pass. Since they don't check ID, you can just ] walk onboard. Links to possible solutions. |