Oops . A laptop with the names of 33,000 people enrolled in the Clear program -- the principally popular airport "trusted traveller" program -- has been pilfered at SFO. The TSA is inauspicious .
Stealing databases of personal accusation is not good, but this doesn’t make a bit of difference to airport security. I’ve before that time written about the Clear program: it’s a $100-a-year program that lets you cut the security line, and small matter more. Clear members are in no degree more trusted than anyone else.
Anyway, it’s without pain to fly without an ID, as long as you claim to have lost it . And it’s also easy to master through airport defence without being an genuine airplane itinerant .
None of this is security. Absolutely not one of it.
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