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Passport out-of-control at French airport

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Papers please. Windows is watching

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 French provincial airport: Paris-Charles de Gaulle.

Our reader was making their way through the airport after returning from holiday. They told us, "I was about to go through a PARAFE gate (the French equivalent of the British ePassport gates) when suddenly, right after I inserted my passport, the system crashed and rebooted."

Where there had been an instruction to insert a passport and hope you looked enough like your picture that a...

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