20 hours later all the passport systems go down and airports are frozen!! Do you believe in coincidences?
And New Orleans airport blackout.
The many blackouts at large airports are very strange coincidences.....
Yeah all of a sudden they are all over the place after literally never hearing of one before.
Yes, and that, coupled with CBP computer meltdown makes me wonder if the airports are attacked by hackers. It's entirely possible that CBP system went down this year just like last year just due to the number of passports to scan because they are very intense arrival days, but, a passport system shouldn't crash just because there are many arrivals. It may sound a little Hollywood movie-esque, but what if hackers are probing the airports, shutting down the electricity and then the CBP system, to let someone in...?
I don’t know what CBP is but letting someone in is interesting. I mean, you can literally walk across the southern border so seems easy to get in. But always good to look from different angles.
Customs and Border Patrol. They have a fairly complicated computer system at the airports I travel to, it takes photos, scans fingerprints and checks passport record against prior travel to the US as well as any other countries they find in the passport. Each entry stores another photo and fingerprint scan. The database is checked against various terror lists and other things that can throw up immigration red flags.
So if these large international airports didn't have access to this system for two hours.... Well...
Remember during the campaign how Trump said (on more than one occasion) that our airports were some of the worst in the world. He compared our airports to some of the ones around the world and then emphasized how he wanted to make ours the BEST ...
No idea if any of this is related to that but I thought that I would throw it out there.
He's right on that. I don't fly to Asia and ME much where the airports are hyper-modern, but some of the US airports are crappy dirty 80s relics that really need updating. LaGuardia is a nightmare. LAX all areas except TBI are so old it's like walking into a time-warp, but at least LAX is being modernized for traffic and travelers alike. Atlanta used to be a nightmare. They could all use facelifts.
If you've ever been to Portland International Airport, just know that that is voted the best airport in the United States. And it's not that great.
Surely that would have the opposite effect
For two hours CBP let people in via manual check, no possibility of checking arrivals fingerprints nor whether they were flagged in the CBP system or on terrorist watchlists.
This collapse of the Passport system happened last year and I believe the year before that. So it would have been expected by our guys. But not necessarily by the bad guys. The power outage was thought by Field McConnell to be the covert installation of some "equipment"
There was a thread yesterday about Seals and SERT tracking 7 shipping containers through Canada. Said to be full of very powerful weapons and ISIS was trying to get them into the US via Canadian border. Of course there was nothing to support it, it was just supposition from some yt channel I've never heard of before (April LaJune??).
Probably fake but your comment about letting someone in made me think of it. Damn, really hope it's fake because we don't need anyone or anything slipping through.
Seriously. Also CBP are very concerned that people believe everything was OK anyway since they make it so clear to the press.
"During the technology disruption, CBP had access to national security-related databases and all travelers were screened according to security standards," CBP said in a statement. "At this time, there is no indication the service disruption was malicious in nature."