more on : How to fly in the U.S. without ID

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From: Lorrie Cranor <[email protected]>
Date: October 7, 2006 1:04:35 PM EDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IP] more on : How to fly in the U.S. without ID

I 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

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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:

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <[email protected]>
> Date: October 7, 2006 11:39:36 AM EDT
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: How to fly in the U.S. without ID
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> [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]
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> From: David Wagner <[email protected]>
> Date: October 7, 2006 8:19:38 AM PDT
> To: [email protected], [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: [IP] How to fly in the U.S. without ID
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> 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.
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