continental airlines is about to tell passengers go ahead, board yourself. the airline testing out new technology to let you swipe your own boarding pass at the gate. but is this convenience worth all the potential safety risks? joining us now for a fair and balanced debate, michael hoffman, former homeland security analyst on airport security systems and kate hanai is an executive director of flyers rights.org. good morning to both of you. as we were reminded on christmas day, we are a target for international terrorists so any mention of less security makes flyers more nervous. why should they not worry about self-boarding? well, we ve seen this proven to be very functional in the international airports, frankfort has been doing this, munich has been doing this for several years. it works. you don t remove the safety precautions of the tsa, the actual getting through on the normal safety procedures and i would argue that the ramp check-in isn t about safety, it s about efficiency,