[41916] in Cypherpunks
Re: airport security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Bruen, MIT Lab for Nuclear Sci)
Sat Oct 21 01:34:05 1995
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 7:16:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bob Bruen, MIT Lab for Nuclear Science" <BRUEN@mitlns.mit.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: BRUEN@mitlns.mit.edu
Futplex writes:
>DCF writes:
>[re: shwoing picture ID to board commercial flights in the U.S.]
>> I wonder how many have challenged this.
>Any pointers to news articles or govt. press releases that actually state
>some rationale for the ID checks, however spurious ?
>> I suppose they are trying to discourage people from buying tickets in
>> false names so that the databanks can be more useful to the authorities.
>It's bad enough that it is "illegal" (at least according to some recent ARC
>flight coupons of mine) to sell or otherwise transfer your tickets to someone
>else. I'd love to see them try to justify crap like that.
Without actually agreeing with the FAA, the reason you can't have a name
other than your own on your ticket, as well as why you are required to
be in your assigned seat on take-off and landing is because if there is
a plane crash, they need to be able to identify an otherwise difficult
to identify body. This does have some relevance to airport security if
a plane is blown up.
Sorry about this,
Bob
