[xrmusn]

While ‘we’ sleep, the bad guys come up with ways to stay a step ahead....Of course ‘we’ have to stay up with the important things, brittany, OJ etc etc

[boop]

I like this bit from the article:

"An alert agent recognized that the "H" in the van's serial number is a letter used only on U.S. Border Patrol Jeep Wranglers. It should have been a "P."

Good. Now the smugglers know the correct letter to forge next time.

[hoosierham]

Excuse me,but faked utility,plumber,cable tv, etc. have been a staple of undercover stakeouts in TV shows and movies since the 1960s!!

And the Mission Impossible team on TV in the 1970s was always pretending to be telephone repairman.

This is nothing new for the good guys or the bad guys.Wearing enemy colors has always been a high-risk,high-payoff tactic.

What is disturbing is how lax the checks are at all too many potential targets;and the fact that too few security teams have an effective means of stopping an attacker.