Delta CAPPS-2 watch: decrypt boarding passes!

[Russell Nelson]

John Ioannidis writes:
 > (they [TSA] still picked up "random" people without the search
 > string on their boarding passess).

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!  If this list was to have a subtitle it would be
"Practical uses of randomness".  Surely they're rolling dice, or
cutting a well-shuffled deck, or consulting a book of random numbers,
or using some other secure source of randomness.  Somebody please tell
me that they're not just picking people "at random".  I am reminded of
a six-year-old's idea of randomness: eenie, meenie, miney, moe.

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