The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Student creates Web site that automates fake boarding passes By Joshua Freed, The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — A computer-security student says terrorists would have no trouble getting around the government’s no-fly list, and to prove it he set up a Web site that prints fake boarding passes. …

“Before, any 12-year-old could have done it,” [Christopher Soghoian, 24, a doctoral student at Indiana University] said Friday. “Now any 30- or 40-year-old could do it as well.” [mjh: ouch!] …

Soghoian said taking nail clippers and liquids away from travelers is giving them a false sense of security, and he’s trying to show where the real threats are.

“When they say ‘For security reasons,’ everyone shuts up, everyone follows the rules and no one questions authority. And I don’t think that’s right,” he said.