And of course the rejected applicants can still jump into an aircraft at an airstrip that has no security requirements and fly into a place where an ASIC is required.
Or maybe the terrorists wouldn’t try that, because they might get fined...
Or maybe they’ve set up ‘forcefields’ around all the security controlled aerodromes to ‘block’ any aircraft that doesn’t have an ASIC holder on board. (Sounds like an ideal opportunity for an IT contractor to fleece the government out of a few lazy hundred millions, in return for some magic beans software. Can’t call it the ‘Star Wars Defence Shield’ - that’s been taken. Maybe the ‘Integrated Metadata Security Intelligence Collection Kinetic Operational Forcefield Turbo Histogram Isomer Sensitive Sensor Information Technology’ or: I’M SICK OF THIS **** for short.