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TSA, Continental, Pilot Paperless Boarding Pass

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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

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By Calvin Biesecker The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Continental Airlines [CAL] kicked off a new pilot project this week at George Bush International Airport that allows passengers to receive their boarding passes electronically on their cell phones or PDAs, eliminating the need for a paper boarding pass. Moreover, unlike the current paper boarding passes, which don't have any security features built in, the electronic passes are encrypted so that a TSA officer at the front of an airport security…

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