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Hacker checker

This would be the new job title for people being hired at Americas airports.  Our nation it would appear faces two grave challenges both of which happen to have a similar mode of attack.  Aka the Virus.

In the first instance the threat of being hacked is grave - it now appears that two out of every one American has been hacked I.e.their identity has been stolen multiple times by hack attacks from entities native and foreign.  One of the mechanisms used to  inflict financial pain is using a man made virus (by so called computer hackers)  that could enter sensitive system vaults at any major financial institution and extract personal information cleaning out your bank account.

In the second instance the hacking is in the form of physical heaving caused by strains of different viruses like Ebola and Entero that entered the human body.  This can literally take you to the grave. Reminds me if a Bruce Lee film called ' Enter the Dragon'.

Entero and Ebola virus outbreaks have led to new laws to check people arriving at the nation's airports for temperature and exhibiting coughing. We will thusly see these so called Hacker Checkers in masks carrying thermometers to stick into the passengers mouth along with finger print scanners that will look for known hackers.

If you can imagine the line waiting to clear immigration - now multiply that by ten fold (with thermometers sticking out of their mouths) is the extra hours you might have to build in your estimates to arrive at your destination

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  1. Wouldn't the thermometer give you the Ebola if passed on wrongly?

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