Police State News

Not so much new, this is actually two months old, but here it is:

If you want to fly on the airlines and you lose your ID, then they will ask you some questions and give you the full-9-yards security screening, and they will let you pass. But if you refuse to show them ID, they will turn you away. So if you're careless or stupid, you can fly, but if you don't want to submit to the police-state mentality of the TSA, you are shit out of luck.

I suppose this makes sense, but don't ask me how.

(H/T to Schneier on Security)

UPDATE: If you do show up at the airport without your ID, the TSA puts you on their threat list because, after all, the grandmother who lost her purse just might be an al Qaeda operative..