Flying on someone else's airline ticket
Posted on 2005-02-15 at 08:02
Still on the topic of security, There are three things to authenticate: the identity of the traveler, the boarding pass, and the computer record. Think of them as three points on the triangle. Under the current system, the boarding pass is compared to the traveler's identity document, and then the boarding pass is compared with the computer record. But because the identity document is never compared with the computer record -- the third leg of the triangle -- it's possible to create two different boarding passes and have no one notice. Credit to Bruce Schneier for the original discovery. I'm putting it here to further accentuate the point made above with the street picture...and to stick it to The Man, who should NOT be requiring us to show our papers when we fly domestically in the first place. Nazis!