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Application Defects are a Real Problem

This past weekend was my high school's 30th year reunion get together in my hometown in Beaufort, SC, which is home to Parris Island and the awesome Marine Corps Air Station across town.  My companion purchased the tickets for us both using reward miles on her airline of choice via that airline's website.  She is a frequent flier on that airline for professional reasons so her profile contained her rewards program number and her TSA pre-check number.  I, on the other hand, don't fly on this particular airline much so I don't belong to their rewards program.  In fact, I don't fly often at all, since my job typically keeps me in the greater NYC metro area where I can drive everywhere that I need to go so I never filed for a TSA pre-check number either. Imagine my dismay, then, when browsing our boarding passes revealed that my boarding pass said "TSA pre" on it.  "That's odd," we thought, and were sure that some other system would flag that a