the Evil Line

Jeffrey Greenberg loads his carry-on bag with some liquids, boxcutters, a Hezbollah flag, and terrorist propaganda. Then he meets a collaborator who provides him with a forged boarding pass at the airport Starbucks:

He had taken the liberty of upgrading us to first class, and had even granted me “Platinum/Elite Plus” status, which was gracious of him. This status would allow us to skip the ranks of hoi-polloi flyers and join the expedited line, which is my preference, because those knotty, teeming security lines are the most dangerous places in airports: terrorists could paralyze U.S. aviation merely by detonating a bomb at any security checkpoint, all of which are, of course, entirely unsecured.

The collaborator, predictably, is Bruce Schneier. Even more predictably, he gets through security with no problem, despite declining to show ID.