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Re:Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught by dev-tacular on Friday April 12, 2024 @12:26PM (#40014697)
Showing IDs would work, but also training employees not to assume a warning is a glitch would have prevented him from boarding. If they took the time verify that the original person had already scanned their ticket, they would have noticed something was wrong.

EDIT: this is assuming that the warning is not routinely ignored (i.e. there's actually a bug in the system and it would slow down boarding time since it happens so frequently.) If that were the case... they should fix their system lol

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Re:Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught by rdtsc on Friday April 12, 2024 @01:07PM (#40015195)
It might be a generic "beep" error that a dirty sensor or paper would normally indicate. People get used to false positives quickly and start ignoring them.

Maybe it was a different alarm with a distinctive indicate that "I read this fine, but it's a duplicate" and they would stop and start checking the ID.

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