Comments on: A new way for TSA to screw up your travel day http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/ Strategies for Internet citizens Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:06:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Earl Peterson http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-125518 Earl Peterson Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:31:32 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-125518 I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you have got a good point of view. Thanks for your thoughts. I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you have got a good point of view. Thanks for your thoughts.

]]> By: travel directory http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-125121 travel directory Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:31:56 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-125121 well this is useful... (at least for me) very thanks -------------------------------- <a href="http://www.traveldirectconnection.info" rel="nofollow">travel directory</a> well this is useful… (at least for me)

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]]> By: TSA to Aer Lingus: Hello? « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-88599 TSA to Aer Lingus: Hello? « Jon Udell Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:49:31 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-88599 [...] Aer Lingus: Hello? Filed under: Uncategorized — Jon Udell @ 6:49 pm So, by the way, again with the boarding pass stamp. This time it was even stranger. AerLingus.com had invited me to check [...] [...] Aer Lingus: Hello? Filed under: Uncategorized — Jon Udell @ 6:49 pm So, by the way, again with the boarding pass stamp. This time it was even stranger. AerLingus.com had invited me to check [...]

]]> By: J.P. Hamilton http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-68762 J.P. Hamilton Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:57:00 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-68762 Personally, I would rather live with a possible terrorist threat if it meant keeping my shoes on at the airport and my laptop in its backpack...and do away with the TSA and all the ridiculous rules completely. If only the world we lived ran on logic. Personally, I would rather live with a possible terrorist threat if it meant keeping my shoes on at the airport and my laptop in its backpack…and do away with the TSA and all the ridiculous rules completely. If only the world we lived ran on logic.

]]> By: Eric Liknes http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-68616 Eric Liknes Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:43:46 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-68616 TSA is an equal opportunity offender, it doesn't matter how rich, privileged you are they will definitely enforce the rules no matter how little sense they make. As has been pointed out multiple times by Bruce Schneier: http://www.schneier.com/cgi-bin/search/search.pl?Realm=whole+site&Terms=tsa and rather scatalogically by Adam Curry: http://curry.podshow.com/?p=795 http://curry.podshow.com/?p=817 No doubt you are in good company pointing out the many paradoxes and inconsistencies within the day-to-day operations of the Transportation Security Administration. TSA is an equal opportunity offender, it doesn’t matter how rich, privileged you are they will definitely enforce the rules no matter how little sense they make. As has been pointed out multiple times by Bruce Schneier:
http://www.schneier.com/cgi-bin/search/search.pl?Realm=whole+site&Terms=tsa

and rather scatalogically by Adam Curry:
http://curry.podshow.com/?p=795
http://curry.podshow.com/?p=817

No doubt you are in good company pointing out the many paradoxes and inconsistencies within the day-to-day operations of the Transportation Security Administration.

]]> By: TomB http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-68228 TomB Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:27:53 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-68228 So the next time I fly back home to from EWR to DUB via OHR, I have to so what to get a stamp? obviously the brain trust have been let out again So the next time I fly back home to from EWR to DUB via OHR, I have to so what to get a stamp?

obviously the brain trust have been let out again

]]> By: Giacomo http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-68212 Giacomo Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:31:53 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-68212 This kind of bureacracy only protects you from the terrible terrorist threat of somebody flying with a fake name. Because hijackers are all so worried about protecting their real identities... This kind of bureacracy only protects you from the terrible terrorist threat of somebody flying with a fake name. Because hijackers are all so worried about protecting their real identities…

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-68103 Jon Udell Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:29:32 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-68103 "I was aghast when I realized that all you’d have to do once you’ve printed your boarding pass at home is to actually “print” it to a PDF file, then modify the name on the paper to match whatever fake ID (or real ID that you don’t want to be checked by the airline’s computer) you wanted to use to get through security." Fair enough. I guess this new procedure is not yet universally deployed at all airports, though. So until it is, you have to ask yourself: Do I not have a stamp because this airport doesn't require one, or do I not have a stamp because this airport does require one but somebody didn't get the memo? “I was aghast when I realized that all you’d have to do once you’ve printed your boarding pass at home is to actually “print” it to a PDF file, then modify the name on the paper to match whatever fake ID (or real ID that you don’t want to be checked by the airline’s computer) you wanted to use to get through security.”

Fair enough. I guess this new procedure is not yet universally deployed at all airports, though. So until it is, you have to ask yourself: Do I not have a stamp because this airport doesn’t require one, or do I not have a stamp because this airport does require one but somebody didn’t get the memo?

]]> By: Pat Crenshaw http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-67960 Pat Crenshaw Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:04:10 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-67960 Many of us feel for you, bro. I have been screwed by "Untied" Airlines before, although this appears to be (partly) the fault of an outsourced gnome..... Of course, the primary reason they have to 'stamp' your boarding pass is because of the combination of On-line Check-in and dropping the ID-check at the jetway door. I love On-line check-in, but it caused enough "loss of control" over the concept of a boarding pass, that they figured that they must have someway to ensure that the slip of paper you showed with your identification back in the Main Terminal is the same slip of paper you're using to get onto the airplane. I was aghast when I realized that all you'd have to do once you've printed your boarding pass at home is to actually "print" it to a PDF file, then modify the name on the paper to match whatever fake ID (or real ID that you don't want to be checked by the airline's computer) you wanted to use to get through security. Many of us feel for you, bro. I have been screwed by “Untied” Airlines before, although this appears to be (partly) the fault of an outsourced gnome…..

Of course, the primary reason they have to ’stamp’ your boarding pass is because of the combination of On-line Check-in and dropping the ID-check at the jetway door. I love On-line check-in, but it caused enough “loss of control” over the concept of a boarding pass, that they figured that they must have someway to ensure that the slip of paper you showed with your identification back in the Main Terminal is the same slip of paper you’re using to get onto the airplane. I was aghast when I realized that all you’d have to do once you’ve printed your boarding pass at home is to actually “print” it to a PDF file, then modify the name on the paper to match whatever fake ID (or real ID that you don’t want to be checked by the airline’s computer) you wanted to use to get through security.

]]> By: Gardner http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-67947 Gardner Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:24:24 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-67947 Ugh. I'm really sorry this happened to you. Fewer flights, razor-thin time margins, heightened security, inevitable mistakes, increasingly callous customer-service folks (I bet that United customer-service agent could have tried a little harder to get to plan "b"): it's a perfect storm. There's got to be a market niche here somewhere for just-enough-better service at a just-a-little-higher price, something like the Target to the current airline K-Mart mentality. I hope you didn't have to spend the night at O'Hare. Ugh. I’m really sorry this happened to you. Fewer flights, razor-thin time margins, heightened security, inevitable mistakes, increasingly callous customer-service folks (I bet that United customer-service agent could have tried a little harder to get to plan “b”): it’s a perfect storm. There’s got to be a market niche here somewhere for just-enough-better service at a just-a-little-higher price, something like the Target to the current airline K-Mart mentality.

I hope you didn’t have to spend the night at O’Hare.

]]> By: Mike Caulfield http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-67920 Mike Caulfield Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:45:28 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-67920 I'm sure that stamp can't be faked, either. Do they do it like music venues and alternate colors on different days to make it more difficult to counterfeit? Oh, they should completely use blacklight ink! Then I'd feel REALLY safe, because they'd have to look at it under a special lamp. Is it just me, or is CYA-driven process becoming more and more dominant in the public sphere? If we pooled all those lost hours from missing stamps together could we maybe invent an airplane that couldn't be hijacked instead? Of course, we'd miss the theater then... I’m sure that stamp can’t be faked, either. Do they do it like music venues and alternate colors on different days to make it more difficult to counterfeit?

Oh, they should completely use blacklight ink! Then I’d feel REALLY safe, because they’d have to look at it under a special lamp.

Is it just me, or is CYA-driven process becoming more and more dominant in the public sphere? If we pooled all those lost hours from missing stamps together could we maybe invent an airplane that couldn’t be hijacked instead?

Of course, we’d miss the theater then…

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-67880 Jon Udell Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:18:39 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-67880 "Sure beats being TSA and having to deal with all the arrogant passengers who have no idea what you have to deal with." I wasn't arrogant. I was, however, delayed 5 hours because somebody whose job it was to rubberstamp my boarding pass neglected to do it. “Sure beats being TSA and having to deal with all the arrogant passengers who have no idea what you have to deal with.”

I wasn’t arrogant. I was, however, delayed 5 hours because somebody whose job it was to rubberstamp my boarding pass neglected to do it.

]]> By: oranckay http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-67865 oranckay Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:35:55 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/04/a-new-way-for-tsa-to-screw-up-your-travel-day/#comment-67865 How awful. Sure beats being TSA and having to deal with all the arrogant passengers who have no idea what you have to deal with. How awful. Sure beats being TSA and having to deal with all the arrogant passengers who have no idea what you have to deal with.

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