Two hackers, Laurie and Van Beek, went to Amsterdam's Schipol airport in September 2008, and fooled the passport scanning machine. They had a biometric chip that they put in information about Elvis Presley, and it accepted. They even stated that they said the destination was a country that didn't even exist. Meaning that the scanning machine didn't even check the countries signatures. Now because this has happened, they have frequent eye scans, and fingerprints taken to ensure that you are who you say you are. Laurie Beek said "The problem, in part, is that each country has its own security signature for verifying its own biometric passports. While some share that information, many countries do not, making it easy to exploit the loopholes." I believe that she is right, we need to be more careful and ensure that no one that isn't an American citizen or something like that shouldn't be in airplanes, we found that out the hard way on 9/11. What precautions do you think that we should take to make America safer?
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