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thewayneWith the increases in border security and the addition of biometric scanning, they're likely having problems. Part of the issue is that when non-Americans come in to the United States, they're frequently fingerprinted and some countries are now doing retina scans. These scans, along with the documents of the person and passport entering the country, are logged in fairly secure databases. As biometric information coded in to passports increases, the data being logged will increase and it will make it much harder, if not impossible, for the same person to enter the same country twice using different credentials.
It's something that I've been thinking about for a while in terms of fictional narrative, such as Highlander. So you're immortal, hundreds of years old, used to traveling the world. Then 9/11 happens and crossing borders starts becoming increasingly difficult. It seems that such people would have to get really connected in to the criminal underworld and smugglers who can cross the border covertly. The other issues that spies would run in to is that often their covers require them to stay in expensive hotels for verisimilitude and such hotels require their customers to surrender their passports when they check in and enter that information in to computers tied in to border control and law enforcement, so a passport that appears at a hotel without having gone through border control will be suspicious.
Going to cause a bit of a sticky wicket. I think the growth industry is planting people inside customs/border control departments who can get access to these databases and potentially purge or manipulate these records.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/cia-spies-biometric-tech/all/1
It's something that I've been thinking about for a while in terms of fictional narrative, such as Highlander. So you're immortal, hundreds of years old, used to traveling the world. Then 9/11 happens and crossing borders starts becoming increasingly difficult. It seems that such people would have to get really connected in to the criminal underworld and smugglers who can cross the border covertly. The other issues that spies would run in to is that often their covers require them to stay in expensive hotels for verisimilitude and such hotels require their customers to surrender their passports when they check in and enter that information in to computers tied in to border control and law enforcement, so a passport that appears at a hotel without having gone through border control will be suspicious.
Going to cause a bit of a sticky wicket. I think the growth industry is planting people inside customs/border control departments who can get access to these databases and potentially purge or manipulate these records.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/cia-spies-biometric-tech/all/1
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Date: 2012-04-16 02:14 am (UTC)