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Incidentally, I think I might have to try this next time I fly. Chris says that not only does the TSA rarely give him a lot of trouble, but often it actually gets him through the line faster, because they stick him in a special (shorter) trouble-makers’ line. Or if you don’t feel like explicitly asserting your rights, you can just state that you forgot to bring your ID.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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