Posted on 10/27/2006 7:02:06 PM PDT by nocarrier
Oct. 27, 2006 — A 24-year-old computer security student working on his doctorate at Indiana University Bloomington has created a Web site that allows anyone with an Internet connection and a printer to create and print fake boarding passes for Northwest Airlines flights.
The passes look virtually identical to the ones printed from the airline's site, and are intended to get you past security — but not onto an airplane.
By entering your name and plugging in information about the flight — flight number, gate, seat number, departing city, destination, departure, and arrival times and class — the site generates a boarding pass the program's creator says will get you past security checkpoints, even without ID.
Christopher Soghoian, creator of "The Northwest Airlines Boarding Pass Generator," knew he would be opening up a can of worms by writing the program and creating the site, but says it's the only way to show people how deeply flawed airport and airline security are.
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No doubt little old housefrau me will get right to it.
I'm lucky I have figured out how to log on, check my email and find FR.
This is not even remotely close to cracking voting machine software if that is what the other guy did. This is just faking a printed form. Believe me, tons of the current generation of high school kids could do this. Probably if I offered you $5,000 to learn how to do it you'd come back in 3 months for payment!
LOLOL.....not a chance. My hubby taught computer science classes to grade school kids way back when as part of an enrichment program. I'm hopeless, trust me! Tech challenged in the extreme.
Don't you know, every failed TSA workers is directly the fault of the President.
She better not. They'd probably fine her for breaking the regs.
Yeah, it's an excellent system. I get my bodily orifices inspected so the impressionable can think they're safe. Great. Good thing we have Republicans in office.
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