this shit is shit.
Well the insanity prevails again. In the good ol' US or A the idea has been conceived of a high-flyers smart card that will allow a streamlined and reduced security check for cashed up corporate flyers.
Smartcard Key to Flier Fast Lane is worth the read. Excerpt below:
Frequent fliers willing to be fingerprinted and background-checked may soon get their own airline screening lanes run by private companies in the nation's airports, homeland security officials say.
The Transportation Security Administration Friday sketched out broad outlines of a nationwide Registered Traveler program that relies on private companies to issue the cards and run additional screening lines, as well as set prices and develop interoperability standards.
Applicants will undergo a government background check and submit 10 fingerprints which will be encoded onto a smart card. When a cardholder enters the security lane, they will have their fingerprints compared to those stored on the card.
Yep, that'll work a treat. Considering the proven corporate links between terrorist organisations cash front companies and big business in the USA it wouldn't be a stretch in envisage a possiblity that some wrong-doer with the right connections could organise a card to get to the right wrong person. Surely it's not that big a leap to imagine.
You have to wonder why they would even have so much security if you can-given enough cash and connections-pay your way through it all or at least most of it? What's the point? Shit, terrorist threat aside, what stops a corporate high-flyer losing his or her shit at 10,000 feet like anyone else? Not much. Yep, nice to see more evidence of a world where cash rules above even common sense. But as I've said before, what the fuck do I know.
quote for the day:
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Smartcard Key to Flier Fast Lane is worth the read. Excerpt below:
Frequent fliers willing to be fingerprinted and background-checked may soon get their own airline screening lanes run by private companies in the nation's airports, homeland security officials say.
The Transportation Security Administration Friday sketched out broad outlines of a nationwide Registered Traveler program that relies on private companies to issue the cards and run additional screening lines, as well as set prices and develop interoperability standards.
Applicants will undergo a government background check and submit 10 fingerprints which will be encoded onto a smart card. When a cardholder enters the security lane, they will have their fingerprints compared to those stored on the card.
Yep, that'll work a treat. Considering the proven corporate links between terrorist organisations cash front companies and big business in the USA it wouldn't be a stretch in envisage a possiblity that some wrong-doer with the right connections could organise a card to get to the right wrong person. Surely it's not that big a leap to imagine.
You have to wonder why they would even have so much security if you can-given enough cash and connections-pay your way through it all or at least most of it? What's the point? Shit, terrorist threat aside, what stops a corporate high-flyer losing his or her shit at 10,000 feet like anyone else? Not much. Yep, nice to see more evidence of a world where cash rules above even common sense. But as I've said before, what the fuck do I know.
quote for the day:
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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