While we are on the topic of travel security, I would like to present to you TSA’s newly released blog: Evolution of Security. It’s mission is:

to facilitate an ongoing dialogue on innovations in security, technology and the checkpoint screening process.

Judging from the comments, many of them rather vitriolic, it seems that a number of people have taken them up on the offer of dialogue.

In turn, TSA has vowed to respond to each concern in kind. So get your digs in now - it might pay off later.

From Gadling:

Scandinavian airline SAS has introduced finger-print check-in on a domestic flight from Stockholm to Gotenburg in Sweden. Its purpose at the moment is to make sure that the person who checks-in luggage is the same as the person boarding the flight, a sure advantage for airport /on-flight security.

While they point out that this is not new on a domestic level, they note that eventually they would like to make this an international system of identification. I am not sure how widespread it would be, but it brings up a couple of different issues.

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