Student shows how to beat US airport security
A graduate student showed how easy it is to get around the US’s no-fly list by printing fake boarding passes.
“Before, any 12-year-old could have done it. Now any 30-or 40-year-old could do it just as well,” Christopher Soghoian told the Associated Press.
He is a 24-year-old doctoral student at Indiana University who set up a Web site that prints fake boarding passes. He said he did it to show that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is not serious about security.
Terrorists on the no-fly list could use a fake boarding pass to avoid the list because ID’s are checked only when the passenger passes through TSA screening.
There have been recent reports of travelers flying without any ID at all, which shows the “no-fly list does not work,” the student said.
He admitted that the fake boarding pass could not get anyone onto a flight because the bar code wouldn’t match other information on the pass.
The response of the TSA?
“Showing fraudulent documents to get through security is against the law,” said a spokesman.
Report by David Wilkening
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