Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For an electronic system to work, you'd need 100% coverage of every border, or the system breaks - and that's hard to pull off. And therein lies the true absurdity of it. All travel stops if the internet goes down?
If we truely have high-level terrorists crossing borders, then yes, every person's identity should be checked against national police files and thus, when Internet is down, every decision should be suspended, if we want to be consistent. Obviously I say "if" because those who actually want to deceive the system walk through borders by foot (taking advantage of the terrain), and register as migrants (under no less tha…
I'm not talking about a momentary outage. I'm talking about, e.g., citizens trying to return home after a crippling cyber attack that leaves America offline.