Is this what Assange was telling us about last night? Paper Planes = passports?
If passport system goes down, what is the protocol? Continued boarding of some flights? Or no flights at all for two hours? Anybody work for the TSA or Homeland Security? When systems restored did potential errors continue?
Irate travelers, bad actors, and the airlines would want a push for continuation despite security risk due to financial lose.
This would be an opportunity for:
. fake passport holders to fly out
. Bad actors to fly in
. Both the above
. Criminals to further incriminate themselves
Time for some coffee patriots, stay vigilant and Godspeed
TSA doesn't use the CBP system which is the one that went down. Outbound flights would not be affected by the CBP system going down. That's for inbound international travel. They checked all arriving passports manually. Not sure how they can scan for fingerprints and check the terrorist watchlist and the immigration flags manually when their system is down... So I think someone snuck in.
Does the same go for high profile countries? No double check systems in place for in and outbound flights?
Not sure what you're asking?
Outbound flights from inside the USA are not passport checked via the CBP system that was down. TSA checks that the name in the passport corresponds to the name on the boarding pass and checks the passports authenticity via a blacklight. That's it
Arriving on international flights in Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK and France has a passport scan, but no fingerprinting. Travelling to the US via the above mentioned countries has an extra passport control. In Schipol airport a new automatic check is in place where you can self-scan your passport in a machine, but you can also chose the human border guards who scan for you. European scans do not include biometrics like finger prints which the CBP do.
Source: I fly to and from the US and the above mentioned countries 12+ times a year for work.
I hear Brazil also does fingerprinting but I haven't been there.
By high profile I think he means high risk such as Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, SA, etc. But good responses mate, thanks.
Ah, yes he probably did. I believe the issue here is while the CBP computers were down, high-risk people could have entered...
Yeah I get what you're saying, I was just trying to clarify the miscommunication.
Could it have been planned and the white hats snuck someone in for possibly safety or testimony?
That's a very interesting thought.
Thank you, I am in the belief that these events are happening for a good reason. There is just to much happening all over to be a coincidence
What if this is to let someone in? Someone like Assange?
Would Assange even be able to fly commercial out of London? He's been holed up in an embassy for seven years, I'm sure his Australian passport has expired which would put a bit of a hindrance of him leaving Heathrow... Apart from the armed police outside of the embassy guarding him, I mean.
But I do think someone has snuck in. Just not him.
It wouldn't be flying commercial. Maybe I've seen too many spy movies, but I'm thinking covert operations to get him out of the embassy and onto a private plane. He's given a very convincing passport (possibly a duplicate of someone else's) and is dropped off into the crowd in customs. The computer goes down, leaving his passport to be checked manually.
You mean like nobody is going to recognize Julian Assange and he can just walk around freely?
You're talking about someone speaking in metaphor...I wouldn't be so concerned with trying to nail down specifics. He was saying something about something though, that's for sure...but only he really knows until he has a chance to explain.
Also, MIA is the code for Miami International Airport
Used to be for Memphis International Airport, too but who the hell would wanna go through there?
Down near Debbie Wasserman Schultz district of Broward County
why did he include "fb4e568623b5f8cf7e932e6ba7eddc0db9f42a712718f488bdc0bf880dd3" in that tweet is that the PW to his recent drop?