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Clear airport cards kaput
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- iamcalledrob 17y agoNot knowing any specific details, but it makes me think: why do you need a card for this? Maybe this is the fatal flaw in their business. The UK has a similar system in place on a much larger scale, called, unimaginatively, IRIS. http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/managingborders/technology/iris/ http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/managingborders/technology... It does the same, but all you have to do is look into the scanner, and the gates open.
- zacharypinter 17y agoThe whole idea of FlyClear disturbed me. On the one hand, getting through airports quicker sounds like a great idea. But what sort of message does it send? That you can either suffer through a crappy process, or give up tons of privacy? Do people start looking past the problems with TSA because the norm is to submit yourself to fingerprinting and eye scans? All in all, I'm quite happy to see Clear go under. Now, the frequent flyers can continue to put pressure on the lunacy of the TSA security process.
- gasull 17y agoThey also gave terrorists an easy way to find if they under investigation. Bruce Schneier's words: I think of Clear as a $100 service that tells terrorists if the F.B.I. is on to them or not. Why in the world would we provide terrorists with this ability? http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/clear_registere.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/clear_register...
- avner 17y agoPrivacy and their modus operandi aside, I'm intrigued as to how they expected to survive such a high overhead cost operation with only $100 an year/customer, without any economies of scale or federal govt. support.