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My initial reaction was "wow, good point; there's no way that the government would ever make the airlines buy completely new barcode scanners everywhere, for th
by rhino42 15y ago
My initial reaction was "wow, good point; there's no way that the government would ever make the airlines buy completely new barcode scanners everywhere, for the simple purpose of improving security checkpoint effectiveness".
But then again, they threw down millions per unit for those back-scatter machines, so all bets are off.....
- bri3d 15y agoI'm actually rather surprised the TSA haven't pursued such a project yet - it seems like a perfect opportunity for a politician to give their friend's consulting firm a lot of money. I'm hoping that the airline industry implementing the smart way to do this (signed information in barcodes) for mobile barcodes means that the eventual rework of paper boarding passes will be intelligent as well, but as you say, all bets really are off...