Bogus airline boarding passes on the internet

A student at Indiana University's School of Informatics caused quite a stir by posting a feature to his web site which allowed anyone to type in their name and flight information and print a boarding pass for Northwest Airlines on their home computer.

The student said he was simply trying to highlight a flaw in the nation's airline security procedures when he put a tool on his Web site allowing anyone to create fake boarding passes.

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The FBI didn’t see it that way. They raided the 24-year-old student’s home in Bloomington, Indiana and carted off his computers.

The bogus passes might help a terrorist get past the initial security checkpoints but probably would not let a terrorist board a plane.

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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/31/AR2006103101313.html