Spain cuts off 3 million prepaid cards (with €25m credit)

bylo · 11-11-2009, 21:27

A similar situation exists in the US, where they make you take off your shoes, to check for possible bombs. Meanwhile everywhere else, including Canada, you don't have to do it unless your shoes set off the metal detectors. So any would-be shoe bombers simply has to fly into the US from somewhere else.

VladS · 11-11-2009, 23:54

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Originally Posted by bylo

Meanwhile everywhere else, including Canada, you don't have to do it unless your shoes set off the metal detectors.

That's not entirely correct, at least not in Canada. Passengers on US bound flights can still be required to remove their footwear.

CBC News - Canada - Air travellers can now keep their shoes on

bbob · 12-11-2009, 09:24

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Originally Posted by VladS

That's not entirely correct, at least not in Canada. Passengers on US bound flights can still be required to remove their footwear.

CBC News - Canada - Air travellers can now keep their shoes on

It's all a fake felling of security.

The metal detectors you have to go through detect metal but not any plastic explosive you might carry in your pocket. 500 gram of plastic explosive can do the job.

But wait people just to be tricked in thinking that they are safe. I always compare this with isreal. The is police of other security on every corner of the street, people are carefull and yes sometimes they catch a suicide bomber before he can explode. That said it they wanted they can have a suicide attack every day with succes. There is no such thing as total secirty and rules like you have to register for a sim just give a false idea of security.

It might just be that the government wants to have control and is just using terrorim as an excuus.

f300 · 20-11-2009, 16:29

This "ID requiered" nonsense was in Germany since before 9/11. Of course you can buy perfectly working SIMs near any big large train station (you know the kind of shops, those that advertise cheap calls and have also 1-2 computers for internet but the owners and sometimes patrons look like they would sell you much more than pre-registered SIM cards-not that there is anything wrong with that). SIM cards are also available on ebay pre-registered and with no registration needed, sometimes in bulk (10-20 of them for about 1-2 EUR a piece). If you think somebody can track you via ebay I'm sure you can find at least one seller that would sell it to you for cash (they save ebay fees too).
Unlocked phones aren't even worth discussing as they are probably the top item on ebay, flee markets, etc

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f300 (Offline) Member Advanced Member Posts: 72 Join Date: 12 Mar 2008 Country:	20-11-2009, 16:29 This "ID requiered" nonsense was in Germany since before 9/11. Of course you can buy perfectly working SIMs near any big large train station (you know the kind of shops, those that advertise cheap calls and have also 1-2 computers for internet but the owners and sometimes patrons look like they would sell you much more than pre-registered SIM cards-not that there is anything wrong with that). SIM cards are also available on ebay pre-registered and with no registration needed, sometimes in bulk (10-20 of them for about 1-2 EUR a piece). If you think somebody can track you via ebay I'm sure you can find at least one seller that would sell it to you for cash (they save ebay fees too). Unlocked phones aren't even worth discussing as they are probably the top item on ebay, flee markets, etc