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TSA tries out device that targets fake IDs at IAH
The federal agency has placed 30 machines at the head of security lines at these airports that are designed to efficiently ensure that the thousands of driver's licenses, passports and boarding passes checked every day aren't phony. (www.chron.com) More...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Notably, the 9/11 hijackers, the December 2001 shoe bomber, and the Christmas Day bomber in 2009 all had valid IDs and boarding passes. So I guess this would help get them onto the plane quicker.
Ya know,
Not once since 9/11 and the many times I have flown since then. I have NEVER observed ANY TSA actually look at MY FACE and compare it with the picture on the ID!!!! All they seems pre-occupied with is a name match.....
Not once since 9/11 and the many times I have flown since then. I have NEVER observed ANY TSA actually look at MY FACE and compare it with the picture on the ID!!!! All they seems pre-occupied with is a name match.....
Wouldn't it be funny if this technology didn't really turn up very much? That it seemed like a good thing to spend money on, but that there was no established need?
100K each for a machine that does the job of reading an ID like a $10 app you can buy on the AppleStore? see dooormetrics.com
All it is doing is verifying the barcode on the boarding pass to the ID. doesn't validate the ID itself or the boarding pass against the airport/airline mainframe.
Now the TSA can lower it's hiring requirements from "able to read/match" to "not color blind"!
All it is doing is verifying the barcode on the boarding pass to the ID. doesn't validate the ID itself or the boarding pass against the airport/airline mainframe.
Now the TSA can lower it's hiring requirements from "able to read/match" to "not color blind"!
Yes, but the app doesn't read security features like UV.
Haha, the TSA aka (Touchin', Squeezin', Arrestin) is a joke. Just one more way for our government to burn tax dollars and try to make everything seem like butterfly kisses!