said by jc100 :

Um no thanks. There are already enough issues with the TSA being able to order passengers to decrypt and inspect laptops. In worst cases, they can actually seize and keep your laptop, so you never get it back. Now they want to use your cell phone as a boarding pass? Call me a skeptic, but I value my privacy. I'd rather not risk there being a security bug where my contact list, call history, or personal information gets sent along with the boarding pass. It's just one more reason and worry about what these morons would do with your data. Hence, ARE PEOPLE REALLY THIS DUMB, LAZY, and IN A RUSH they do not think of the ramifications these days. Society is literally going to hell in a hand basket we get more dumb as the days pass.

said by major marco :

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about that. Still, I don't know how much of a privacy issue this brings up. It's just like the pay & go wireless pass from the gas stations. I mean, it's a cell phone. Are you storing documents and other confidential data on it like you would a laptop?

said by RARPSL :

I lose the phone until I can get a new one programmed for my cell number thus not being able to be contacted, as well as losing my phone book whose contents might cause me problems if the wrong name/number is discovered there and which would need to be recreated if the phone is confiscated after inspection. This is the same issue as having my laptop inspected/confiscated (ie: loss of access to the contents as well as the physical device itself).

said by joako :

So you are saying that normally you don't travel with a mobile phone or laptop? I don't see how this is any different.... your mobile phone downloads an HTML page and JPG image and they scan that instead of a boarding pass.

The fact that they can search you does not change. If you travel with your mobile phone and still use a traditional boarding pass they can still search or do whatever you claim they can do with your mobile phone.

said by jc100 :

Um no thanks. There are already enough issues with the TSA being able to order passengers to decrypt and inspect laptops. In worst cases, they can actually seize and keep your laptop, so you never get it back.

said by MrMaster :

searches of what is on a laptop is only permissible at custom checkpoints.

said by jc100 :

How much private information gets stored?

1) Call list and contact list
2) Call log of all incoming and outgoing conversations
3) People have business and personal memos on their phones
4) Blackberrys and others can house text messages, photos, etc

There's a lot that can get stolen. It's a HELL of a lot more than a pay and go pass. Those passes, while tracking your activity, only have certain data. A phone can have a million and one private things on it.

said by jc100 :

Obviously, pay as you got is 100 percent anonymous.

said by jc100 :

Most importantly, no way to say who owns or is using the phone at any given time since it could be sold off or passed around. It's not like a normal phone, where there's an "owner" of the plan.

said by major marco :

Seems to me anything that will alleviate the security theater as practiced by the TSA insane clown posse patrol is a good thing. Of course, this new & improved way of checking in for a flight does not negate the overall clusterfucked chaos that is air travel today, especially when using Delta.

said by kfsutops :

But what would all of the TSA people that check boarding passes have to mark on?

said by voipguy :

Sharpie "OK" written on the screen!

said by dragonbait :

Then you go to a kiosk and print a paper boarding pass.