Web Site Lets Anyone Create Fake Boarding Passes. By ABC News. October 27, 2006, 2:34 PM.

Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and ...

Column:Fake boarding pass fears inflated. Jack Riley and Lily Ablon. Security concerns have been raised because of new software that allows for altering information.

At stop 1), the name on a home-printed boarding pass is checked against an ID, but not against the name stored in the airline’s computer. At stop 2), the name on the printed pass is checked ...

WASHINGTON — More than 11 years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, it remains possible to use fake boarding passes to get through airport-security checks, according to new evidence from ...

Fake Boarding Passes Land Student in Heap of Trouble. By ABC News. November 2, 2006, 11:13 AM. Nov. 2, 2006 — -- Christopher Soghoian is knee-deep in trouble.

For instance, someone could book a ticket to fly under a fake name (one not on a government watch list), print out a boarding pass with the fake name and then PhotoShop another one with their real ...

WASHINGTON — More than 11 years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, it remains possible to use fake boarding passes to get through airport security checks, according to new evidence from ...

Fake boarding passes are hardly a new hacker trick. Cryptographer Bruce Schneier wrote about the technique to make them back in 2003 and privacy activist Chris Soghoian was investigated by the ...

A computer security student says terrorists would have no trouble getting around the government’s no-fly list, and to prove it he set up a Web site that prints fake boarding passes.

Minneapolis: A computer security student said he set up a website that prints fake boarding passes to show that terrorists would have no trouble getting around the US government's no-fly list. The ...

Last week Christopher Soghoian, a 24 year-old Ph.D. student in information security at Indiana University, whipped together a website that allowed anyone to create a fake Northwest Airlines ...