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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]
Yes, but think, it also verifies ALL of the security features (which happen to be many), and who knows, it might even check for warrents! You people complain like you did with the body scanner machines, which By The Way, just scan your body, put the image on a mock up of a human, not you, and point out any thing on your body, and they fixed the side problem.
I had the "pleasure" of going through this device. Took 5 tries each for my passport and boarding pass, as it did for other passengers. After going through this state of the art device, they still asked what my name was, hoping to trip up a would be terrorist, then I had to show my boarding pass to a TSA agent for their initials. What should have taken less than a minute, took what seemed like 10. What a tremendous waste of money and time.
You know, they should be putting these machines at the Airport Bars instead of TSA lines if they really want to see if their "test" works. In my college years, many of us would carry two IDs. If the test works at the bars, then waste money deploying it at the airports. But as Chip points out -- the 9/11 hijackers and other failed plots all had real IDs..... so who knows.
Yes, and who let them have those IDs? Another branch of government. Who cares if you have ID or not? I thought its weapons and bombs they are interested in.
They really like bombs...
Who is the supplier related to? Where did he work last?