The ASIC on its own is useless, any idiot with a laser printer and a laminating machine (or better still, screen printing capability) and the imagination to dress the part is in.
Have to agree with you on that point Sunfish. A lot of what passes for airport security is window dressing. The fact that airports can issue ASICs is just one hole in the system. The other big hole in the system is the access that tarmac staff have to aircraft. They are not required to go through anything but the most rudimentary screening by a bored security person (another glaring hole in the system). What Sunfish is saying is that if the S in ASIC was to mean anything then his scenario would be what it looks like. He is not advocating for that to be introduced, if I have read his post correctly.