[IP] I guess you could call this Not Good News

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Ross Stapleton-Gray [ross@stapleton-gray.com]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 11:17 PM
To: David Farber
Subject: Re: [IP] : I guess you could call this Not Good News

At 06:04 PM 3/7/2008, David Farber passed along the bad news that:
>Denny Kelly says "a guy walks up with that and says 'hey I'm FAA, here's
>my badge' there is nothing they can do about it, 'ok go through'."
>
>More then 100 FAA credentials are now floating around unaccounted leaving
>travelers unsettled and uneasy.

I'm sure that many others will weigh in, but seriously, FAA, get real.  The
problem is far worse than that 100 or so *real* badges/credentials are
floating around, it's that all of these airline employees are conditioned
to admit someone on the basis of a single, readily-forged token.  (Since
you've got, what, a hundred thousand plus people who've been trained to
recognize and pass someone bearing such a thing, you've got that many
people who know enough to tell you what a real one needs to look like, when
you're cobbling up your fake one.)

On the other hand, the risk here is mitigated by all sorts of other steps
we've taken to make air travel as painful as possible, to encourage any
miscreants to focus on more pleasurable modes of transport to attack.

Ross


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