Montreal man uses scanned image of passport to cross US border

All that money spent on fighting terror and this is what we get for our money:

Martin Reisch is certain that if Steve Jobs was alive, the tech innovator would have something to say about him.

The Montreal-based photographer made world headlines after he managed to cross the U.S. border with a scanned image of his passport on his iPad.

“He’d probably say: ‘Here’s something to work on for the future.’ Maybe have some kind of digital certification or encryption to let people travel like this,” Reisch said.

Although he’s sure the U.S. border guard made an exception for him, Reisch is glad his story is being repeated by the likes of the BBC, the Washington Post and the Huffington Post.

“I hope the biggest thing to come out of this is that it becomes a catalyst to change the rules,” he said.

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