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more on : How to fly in the U.S. without ID
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:44:39 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Lorrie Cranor <lorrie+ () cs cmu edu> Date: October 7, 2006 1:04:35 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] more on : How to fly in the U.S. without IDI travelled from Pittsburgh to New York with one of my PhD students who is not a US citizen a few weeks ago. He forgot to bring any form of government ID. At Pittsburgh when they asked for an ID he showed his Carnegie Mellon student ID, and nobody complained at all. At LaGuardia the TSA employee would not accept the CMU ID and sent him back to the airline to get something stamped on his ticket. I was a little worried because I had bought his ticket for him and had accidently spelled his name wrong, but nobody else seemed to notice. I don't know exactly what the airline did because I proceeded through security. But about 5 minutes later my student was back in the security line. They let him through security but did a full wanding and pat down, the same as what they were doing for people they were pulling aside for extra security checks. There was no line at LGA at that time, so the whole incident delayed us no more than 10 minutes. So, at least from this experience, flying in the US without government issued ID appears to be trivial.
Lorrie -- Lorrie Faith Cranor, Associate Research Professor Computer Science and Engineering & Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University http://lorrie.cranor.org/ On Oct 7, 2006, at 12:44 PM, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: October 7, 2006 11:39:36 AM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: How to fly in the U.S. without ID Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com[Note: This comment comes from a reader of Farber's IP list. So I guess then the question is will this sage advice still work today? Anyone out there want to give it a try and report back? <g> DLH]From: David Wagner <daw () cs berkeley edu> Date: October 7, 2006 8:19:38 AM PDT To: s.schear () comcast net, dewayne () warpspeed com Cc: gnu () toad com Subject: [IP] How to fly in the U.S. without ID Actually, that essay is at least 5 or 6 years old and has nothing to do with Gilmore's law suit. It predates 9/11 and completely predates John Gilmore's law suit. I remember reading it back when I was researching this stuff in, oh, 1999 or so. Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lorrie () acm org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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