check your weight loss, you might be a terrorist
Airport security screeners refused to let a cancer patient board a flight home to Denver because they said she no longer resembled her identification photos.
[Athena] LaPera spent most of Tuesday trying to resolve the issue only to be told during a conversation with a federal Transportation Security Administration employee in Washington that she needed new photos and a doctor’s note to explain her changed appearance.
something to keep in mind when you read a proposal for mandatory biometric id – the failure mode is hackable with nothing more than new pictures and a “note from your doctor.”
and there is no way to address the mysterious [not] matching consonant problem.