Crypto Blamed for US terrorist attack - World Exclusive

[Adam Shostack]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:27:18PM +0100, Jeremy Barker wrote:
| Ken Brown wrote:
| 
| > From, I guess, the next commercial plane to take off in   the contiguous
| > US, whenever that is, you will be searched and required to show id. To
| > accommodate those who have neither a photo driving licence or a
| > passport, they will probably introduce a "voluntary" id card scheme.
| 
| That would represent no change to current practice.  AFAIK it is became a
| legal requirement last year to provide positive ID before being allowed to
| board any domestic airline flight in the US.  Many states issue "non-driver"
| driving licences for ID purposes and have done so since the 1980s if not
| longer.

It has not (at least before last week) been a legal requirement to
show ID to fly.  The regulations were put in place by airlines to
prevent people from arbitraging their practice of making a one way
ticket cost $10 less than a round trip.

If you refused to show ID, your bags would be subject to manual
search, and you would be hassled and harrassed.  Perhaps this was a
clever attempt at unsettling you, but I suspect it was unofficial.

Adam

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