There was a story a while back about a university student who made an online tool to generate valid looking (and possibly working) boarding passes online. His sole purpose was to bring to light the fact that they are overly easy for ANYONE to generate. After the FBI dropped it's investigation against him, the TSA is now going after him... To possibly fine him up to $11,000...

The sad part here is that the morons at the TSA (pure, idiotic, shortsighted morons with an IQ comparable to that of a pencil measured in miles) is that if this guy could make a tool to create possibly working boarding passes, a damn terrorist could do it too! Only the terrorist would do it without telling anybody first!!! Does anybody see just how stupid these morons are??? I mean come on, can anybody really be this stupid???

If a problem exists, instead of fixing they go after the one guy who points it out... Because, you know some random guy who makes a tool solely to point out a horrific problem is doing much more damage than a secretive terrorist with a bomb using one he made without telling anyone first could do...

This whole airport security thing is truly pitiful... And these idiots at the FBI & TSA are busy working very hard ensuring it stays that way...

[update]

As much as I can tell this method would work much better than the 'generator' talked about above, and all you nee to pull it off is a stolen credit card & a real ID (even assuming the name on the ID is on the no fly list)...