Thursday, 7 August 2008

Slashdot Users Hammer Verified Identity Pass, Airport Security Procedures, Registered Traveler

After an unencrypted Verified Identity Pass laptop containing pre-enrollment records of "approximately 33,000 customers" was "discovered to be missing from San Francisco International Airport on July 26," the Transportation Security Administration prohibited Verified from enrolling new participants in its Clear registered traveler program. Verified has since found the laptop and said "a preliminary investigation" found that it "was not accessed from the time it went missing." The episode created a lot of chatter on the huge Slashdot community of "nerds," which slammed Verified and threw in a whole bunch of great points about airline security and the registered traveler program, including:

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