The American Airlines Center claims the man who was seen leaving with the girl got in with a counterfeit ticket
This indicates there was a plan and the guy likely worked with security. Somehow they knew the ticket was counterfeit after the fact using (maybe high resolution photos of the ticket as the guy walked through the gate). The perp knew enough about the security to forge and acceptable ticket. Some beaner cartel rapist would be smart enough to do this.
Using facial recognition technology, the Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative was able to locate the girl in less than a day.
While I'm glad the evil tech being forced on all of us was finally able to some good for one, but WTF is going on here. A 501c(3) nonprofit has access to camera feeds of what? Surely the girl being raped wasn't allowed in any public places. Are they getting camera feeds of all hotels in the area (minimum 200 mile radius). The TxCTI (txcti.org) definitely trips some alarm bells. They probably need to be pretty low key for opsec reasons, but this org doesn't stand out as trustworthy. Did a cop/lawyer/trusted person tell the family "you need to contact these people?
The non-specific nature of how they actually located her is alarming. But it's not surprising.
Everything is inverted. The anti-trafficking organizations and task forces are not allowed to really stop anything. Their purpose seems to be to regulate the industry and offer a means of recovery if someone is grabs the wrong kid who belongs to someone important enough. They only ever go after to lowest branches of the tree which by definition is called maintenance and not elimination.
The interesting part of the kidnapping is the fact that someone went to that game that day with the intention of abducting someone. It's not like these guys just spot a kid randomly and seize the opportunity. I'm sure it's also the case but this time someone got a fake ticket knowing they'd only need to slip in long enough to find a target.
I agree. It could also be the fact that the father (or some member of the family) was important and this was a measure of intimidation.
While I'm glad the evil tech being forced on all of us was finally able to some good for one, but WTF is going on here. A 501c(3) nonprofit has access to camera feeds of what?
Amazon sells this tech to whoever wants it, and billing is based on databases and size of sample.
Amazon Rekognition makes it easy to add image and video analysis to your applications using proven, highly scalable, deep learning technology that requires no machine learning expertise to use. With Amazon Rekognition, you can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities in images and videos, as well as detect any inappropriate content.
Disregard, looks like it has a free version
It's not so much about the software for facial recognition, but the data set. What video feed was this non-profit allowed access to? Which other orgs also have access to this data.
I don't understand how he counterfeited the ticket since the system creates truly unique IDs that are fit for the flight and gate.
Meaning, even if you had a legit ticket but it was the wrong flight, when they scan your ticket, it automatically lets them know and makes a beep alarm (so even if they don't look at the screen, they can hear it).
He'd have to have insider knowledge of the unique identifiers to forge the ticket to get through the scanner. Or the airline clerk didn't give a shit about the alarm.
You might have misread. The stadium is owned by American Airlines (why a recently bailed out company can put there name on it is a different story). I don't believe air travel was ever involved. The ticket was for admittance to the stadium. I would think scalping a ticket would be far harder to trace than forging one, but I'm not in the business of kidnapping people.
Someone else responded yesterday and pointed that out that I confused the name of the stadium for a flight from Dallas to OKC.
Thanks for the reply, however. Was wondering what American Airline tickets had to do with the story. :D
Someone probably has the tickets listed for sale online somewhere and idiotically included the bar code on the ticket in a photo of the tickets and the perp used that bar code and entered early enough that the real ticket had not been used yet
It was a basketball game not an airport.
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