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Exactly. And there would be a lot more hurdles since countries generally don't give such access without good reason. Another issue would be reliability. Doing
by blensor 5y ago
Exactly.
And there would be a lot more hurdles since countries generally don't give such access without good reason.
Another issue would be reliability. Doing an attack on the network to break the verification backend would cause a fallback to manual border control which is a problem if your whole process is already relying on the automated gates and you have scaled back the available agents.
Doing that during a time with very high demand would allow an "attacker" to use it to get more people through due to less attention of the border guards.
If I remember correctly the usual timespan a border agent is considered to be attentive enough is 2 hours, at which point they would need to be rotated out, but if your demand has unexpectedly increased so much that you operate twice the manual gates you don't have the people for the normal rotation
- closeparen 5y agoI had no idea passport control would be offline in this day and age. TIL. Thanks!
- LorenPechtel 5y agoObservation: China, a few years back. The train system has been going from a paper ticket approach to a ID-based approach. (You've had to show ID to buy the paper tickets anyway.) They also work on a system where you scan your ticket upon leaving, also--it catches someone who rides further than they paid for. At the time some cities were fully converted and were willing to accept (with some difficulty, the scanners were picky!) our passports others only had the local ID readers. (The local ID has embedded RFID, you just touch it to the scanner plate and the gate opens.) However, others were not--a couple of times security simply let us out without doing any sort of check.