We heard about the boarding pass website earlier this week. Now it turns out that Chris Soghoian, who published the site, has been visited but the FBI on Friday. This came on the heels of calls for his arrest from congressmen.
Soghoian said he was publishing the tool to call attention to anti-terrorist procedures at airports that he said were designed to make passengers feel safer but did little to stop determined bad guys from circumventing the checks. He explained how a fake boarding pass might help a known terrorist evade the TSA’s no-fly list:“1. Buy a ticket online, using a prepaid credit card purchased at 7/11 with cash, for a fake passenger name. Make sure you do not use “John Smith” or “Robert Johnson”, as these are already on the no-fly list.
“2. Show up at the airport, and tell the airline check-in staff you have no ID. They will give you a special boarding pass, marked “NO ID” and “SSSS” which will let you go through security without authenticating your stated name.
“3. Board airplane.”
For more on the story follow the link.
UPDATE: FBI returns with warrants and confiscates computers.
UPDATE 2: Fake airline boarding pass website shut down
Tags: Boarding Pass, FBI, Christopher Soghoian, TSA, Airline Security
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