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| Man: Don't you want to see my license? Agent: Nope, just drop trow, I'll figure it out down here. |
Fox News - The Transportation Security Administration this week announced that it will be testing another new technology that it says will increase security and improve the airline screening process. Called Credential Authentication Technology - Boarding Pass Scanning Systems, or CAT-BPSS the machines will help agents spot fake documents, at a time where fraudulent ids are becoming increasingly sophisticated. TSA will spend $3.2 million on the new system that will be tested at select airports in 2012--although it hasn't been announced exactly where yet. The Washington Post reports that TSA is planning to buy 30 CAT-BPSS scanners from three different vendors, and will eliminate an agent's bouncer- like identification check, where a special light is used on the security features of a person's license or passport.
Wait, what? 3.2 million on some fancy new ID scanning tools? How is it possible a federally funded security agency can't figure out how to scan a license for less than $1 million dollars when every local Joe Tough Guy police officer can scan the bar code on my license in a matter of seconds?
What is costing 3.2 million dollars? I've been in liquor stores where they've been able to read the bar code on my ID, what hell are you guys doing down there at the TSA? It's almost as if you have no law enforcement or security training at all, I just don't get it sometimes.
Plus, this is something that should have been addressed about years ago, you know, instead of that entry level worker, probably making barely above minimum wage, looking at my ID and eyeballing my face to make sure I am who I say I am, I'm sure he's a trained expert. No one thought of ID reading tools before? Really?
