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. That information alone should have been sufficient to prevent them from entering the sterile side of the air system. Given the nature of how the hijacking was executed, preventing two or three of the hijackers on any flight from flying may have been sufficient to cause them to abandon their plans. The devices that they used, namely box cutters, were incidental.The TSA should be applauded for initiating photo-matching identification authentication.
Sheldon H. Jacobson is a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has studied aviation security for over 25 years, providing the technical foundations for risk-based security that informed the design of TSA PreCheck. He wrote this column for The Dallas Morning News.
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