Passport out-of-control at French airport
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technewstube.comPassport out-of-control at French airport
BORK!BORK!BORK! Europe's airports can be a minefield for the unwary traveler, especially when that traveler inserts a passport into a waiting kiosk and finds Windows staring back. An eagle-eyed Register reader (they said we could use their name, but we will keep them anonymous for fear of them being added to some sort of list) encountered the Windows desktop where it probably didn't belong this month, while traveling through that little-known Fr…
A traveler at Paris-Charles de Gaulle was given a somewhat unusual reminder of what actually drives modern border controls, because right after the passport was inserted into one of the airport's automatic PARAFE gates (unique to France for faster auto-check-in), the system crashed and rebooted. Windows 11 behind the passport control And instead of the screen that normally asks travelers to scan their passport, the Windows desktop appeared, repo…
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