Customs Computers Down At Airports Nationwide
Source: Huffington Post
Travelers at Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Dallas-Forth Worth, Charlotte and Baltimore airports reported technical problems checking in to customs on Wednesday evening.
Representatives from several major airports said it appeared to be a "national outage," and referred HuffPost to Customs and Border Protection, which has not yet responded to calls or emails.
According to CNBC, the malfunction appears to stem from terror watch lists.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/customs-check-in-down-across-major-airports-nationwide_561ef1a0e4b0c5a1ce6200b5
Renew Deal
(81,877 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)Those systems are doubly redundant. The local hard drives contain the last Visa Viper watch lists which are updated daily. If the central system is down each Port of Entry can still operate independently with the most recent list.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Air traffic control and airline reservation computer systems sometimes fail even though they have all sorts of redundancies. There's still single points of failure in just about any system and software problems can also plague redundant systems.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Most of the names on the watch list have been there for years. It doesn't make sense that there should be long noticable delays in processing if the DHS central computer is temporarily down. It may be that they are double-checking biometrics manually, something that isn't normally done. There's another explanation for this than computer problems.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)of who really does it.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Microsoft is a leader in terrorism
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)I would not call them terrorists.
bonniebgood
(943 posts)auto 'configured' windows. when it finished, i could not gain access to my computer again. after going thru 8 hours on my cell phone with them, im still dont have access to my computer. DO NOT DOWNLOAD WINDOWS 10! NOTHING IS FREE PERIOD. If i have to buy anything other than Mac/, it wont be anything above windows 7. Strange my reliable firefox went out 3 hours ago.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)They are probably running Windows 3.1
csziggy
(34,138 posts)For nearly every computer in the world including critical infrastructure computers. Interesting timing on that!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)http://www.wired.com/2015/10/this-radio-trick-silently-hacks-siri-from-16-feet-away/
csziggy
(34,138 posts)Through the onboard computer and I thought about that reporter whose car accelerated into a pole, killing him.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)It has been discussed onlilne.
Makes all the computerized airplane controls look a bit scary, doesn't it?
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)csziggy
(34,138 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)I flew my plane into Canada and all I had to do was call CanPass before departing. Once in Canada I simply called them when I was on the ground, they took down some information, and said, "Welcome to Canada". They didn't even come to the plane to inspect it.
With US Customs I had to call. I had to fill out a manifest on eAPIS that demanded all sorts of information that took hours to populate for both coming and going. I had to buy a sticker for the airplane proving I paid my yearly entrance fee, and I had to file an international flight plan both coming and going. Even after all this, Customs claimed they weren't notified and when they inspected the plane a supervisor came over and read us the riot act for not notifying them even though we notified them we were coming in 3 different ways. The lesson learned was always get the name of the person you spoke to on the phone. They also confiscated our beef jerky because the bag wasn't labeled (it was homemade), but let us keep our dried fruit even though the bag said, "Made in Canada" on it. We laughed afterwards that US Customs only manages to intercept 5% of the drugs coming across the border, but they get all the beef jerky.
mia
(8,363 posts)was when they boarded a boat returning from Bimini and mistook a contraceptive foam applicator for a bong.
mia
(8,363 posts)I can imagine that the office of "Customs and Border Protection" does not have the best minds at work on this issue.
shireen
(8,333 posts)due to a computer glitch. Now it's customs. I guess i'm feeling a little extra paranoid tonight after watching Nova on PBS about cyber terrorism.