This article on TSA’s blog was interesting because I’m finding myself in airports much more often these days. Since Saturday, if you show up at the airport without government-issued ID, you can either submit to additional screening or you won’t be allowed to fly:

We’re 48 hours into the new procedure and things have been smooth so far. Approximately 650 people have shown up to security checkpoints without ID and a total of 20 people have not been allowed to fly. That is .0005 percent of the approximately four million people that flew this weekend.

The article that you can read over at Evolution of Security, the official blog of the TSA goes on to cite Gilmore v. Gonzales, a court case where the passenger lost the battle when he claimed that “being required to show identification order to travel by plane inside the country is an unconstitutional restriction of his rights to travel, to petition government, and to speak anonymously.”

I’d read a blog, can’t remember where now, but the blogger had tried to travel without any form of ID aside from a Costco card or something. He was successful, mostly. Now he can, as long as he doesn’t mind spending a little time with security.