WASHINGTON -- The ARC enforcement official of the future won't be
hunting down burglars who break into travel agencies in the dark of
night and steal blank ticket stock.
The ARC enforcement official of the future will be gazing at a
computer screen to figure out how to stop hackers from intercepting
valuable electronic- ticketing information from agents'
computers.
ARC president David Collins said, "As agents move out of the
paper age, our exposure to ticket theft goes down. But we fully
expect that criminals will move into the electronic world, and
we're already developing skills to meet that."
For security reasons, Collins declined to divulge details of
ARC's antifraud efforts.