Remember Christopher Soghoian, the Indiana University doctoral student who was targeted by the FBI for creating an online tool that printed persuasive-looking airline boarding passes (The Chronicle, November 1)?
After allegedly ransacking Mr. Soghoian’s home, the FBI has wrapped up its investigation, and a local U.S. attorney has declined to press charges against the student. So with his legal troubles apparently behind him, Mr. Soghoian is finally talking about his controversial experiment.
In an interview with The Washington Post’s Security Fix blog, the student reveals himself as a pointed, but not unreasonable, critic of airport-security procedures. “We as citizens have given up some of our rights to fly safely,” says Mr. Soghoian. “The question is whether we’re willing to be searched and inconvenienced solely to protect the government’s no-fly list, which doesn’t make us any safer.” —Brock Read
