Comments on: Apple iPad used to help a man cross the US border

By: Wayne McKenzie

Wayne McKenzie — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:40:00 +0000

As long as something some document, whether physical or digital, is the standard for identification forgery will be possible. It’s just a question of how convincingly it is accomplished. I propose that there be two lines for identity checking at airports, borders and other supposedly secure locations: one for people using whatever passes for ID at that location (passport, driver’s license, etc.) and one line for those of us who voluntarily have our retinal scans entered into a global database. Included in the process of entry into the DB would be a rigorous vetting that would determine that you have no nefarious intentions.

By: Counsel Dew

Counsel Dew — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:31:00 +0000

I sent in a link… yet a search of his name and drivers license serves up a reference…

By: wiz

wiz — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:22:00 +0000

What a great ad, thank you guys! It’s great to read these ‘news’ everyday!

By: ujand-Psy

ujand-Psy — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:09:00 +0000

do you mind to share the source where it said Reish driver license got him through the border?

By: Michael Stashuk

Michael Stashuk — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:01:00 +0000

this story is total scam started by a reporter yesterday which has
spread around the world now. Reish didn’t contact the media, didn’t
think nor claim he believed it was the iPad which got him through, some
journalist invented that part, and now on its second day, youtube has
videos showing him getting through the border by waving an iPad, Globe
and Mail is running headlines saying ‘Man gets through border with wave
on an iPad’, and Martin Reich is getting crucfied as a media hound.

In
500 stories on google I can’t find a single reference to Reisht
contacting the media nor a single quote where he says he thinks it is
the iPad which got him through (it was his drivers license). The whole
iPad angle is contrived, and not necessarily by Riesh. This site now says ‘the border officer scanned the iPad’ which he didn’t and was never reported…The thing just keeps getting more twisted LOL.

This is the single biggest scam in reporting I’ve seen in a while, and I hope some people start asking questions. The story is, a guy forgot his passport but had his drivers license, which the border officer accepted. That’s it. I really hope they crucify the original reporter or at least clear up who the heck started the story. For all we know a reported picked it up off of a casual blog or something, and why would Reish – who DID NOT THINK THE IPAD was what GOT HIM THROUGH, call the media about what he thought was a non-story.