Wired Blog & News and Bob Schneier are just two examples of the latest scandalous web widget making the rounds of the blogosphere: a fake NorthwestAirlines boarding pass generator, created by an Indiana University Ph.D. student, Christopher Soghoian, and researcher at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. The extremely Web 1.0 page provides a form for users to create an apparently realistic NorthWest style printable boarding pass. (The default name is Osama Bin Laden.) As both Soghoian and Northwest note, this shouldn't be able to get you on an airplane--airlines use optical scanners, which would notice if a boarding pass wasn't printed properly. But it could very likely get you into the TSA security line, through the metal detectors, and into the boarding area, even if you weren't supposed to be there. Read more and comment here.