By Natasha Lomas
Published: Tuesday 17 October 2006
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Anonymous
Location
UK
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Engineer
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What's the advantage of RFID?
..over the boarding card system we have now? - NOTHING.
So what if you can tell that Jim and Frank are still in the bar when they should be boarding - you'll probably have to make an announcement just the same.
What terrorist has got on a plane without a valid boarding card, RFID or not? The vast majority have been completely bonafide passengers - until they decide to set the bomb off.
Nothing will work until you can read peoples minds and intentions. In the meantime the 99.999% of innocent passengers have to suffer loss of freedom, trust and convenience. This is how we let terrorism win.
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..over the boardi...
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