An attack on the 'Trusted Traveler' Pass

D. A. Honig dahonig at home.com
Fri Feb 1 14:09:37 EST 2002


>
>Some day in the future, maybe a year from now, you may have a "trusted
>traveler" card. Congress wants it, the airlines need it and security
>experts endorse it.
>
>The benefits appear clear. With a tool to separate the wheat from the

So does an attack.  Befriend someone with such a card, give
her a gift with well hidden, unscented plastique and a barometric
detonator.  After some time she takes her planned flight and gets only a
cursory exam.  She neglects to mention the gift she's carrying (they don't
even ask the 2 security questions reliably, any more, anyway).  

It worked over Lockerbie, it'll work again.  The Lockerbie carrier
had the equivalent of a "trusted traveller" card --she was a white
woman.












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