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      Boarding Pass Dude's Computers Seized, Public Service Praised

      By Ben Popken, 8:34 AM on Mon Oct 30 2006, 91 views

      BoingBoing is really your one-stop shop but:

      • The FBI seized Chris Soghoian's computers and ransacked his house.
      • The congressman who called for Soghoian's arrest essentially retracted his comments and praised Soghoian for performing a public good, though he called it, "a lousy way of doing it."
      • A TSA spokeswoman said, "Does this pose a threat to security? No."
      • A Northwest spokesman said, "If someone were to print a fraudulent boarding pass with a first-class seat that was unassigned, they would quickly be discovered by our flight attendants."
      • You can still mod your NWA boarding pass by hand-editing the HTML. Unless you're a noob.

      So it looks like that website wasn't a danger, didn't aid terrorists, and was basically useless except for one thing: pointing out a big ol' security hole. Awesome, glad we got that one figured out.

      Previously: Fake NWA Boarding Pass Site Removed, Creator Visited By FBI

      Read More: Airlines, Airports, Chris, Fbi, NWA, Northwest, Soghoian, Tsa, Top, Security, Terrorism

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