Malaysia airline flight 370 took off early Saturday morning form Kulum lupour Malaysia. It was carrying 239 people to Beijing, China. But it vanished from Radar and tracking records that around 35000 feet. There was with no distract signal. The weather is clear. With nothing found until last night, rescuer expended their searching area, they are looking for clues in the gulf of Thailand between Malaysia and Vietnam. As they are searching from air and sea, Interpol is investigating on the ground. This is an international organization tied with police from more than 180 countries. And it was investigating whether people on the flight with stolen passports might have anything to do with its disappearance. 

 

It is one of the biggest mystery in the disappearance of the Malaysia airline flight 370. Now the Interpol reveals that two international passenger boarding international flight with stolen passports. Even more surprising, they were in plain sight among the name listed in Interpol’s lost and stolen documents data base, one since last year, the other since 2012. Both stolen in Thailand. And apparently the two people using the passports are Italian and Austrian citizen bought their tickets together. 

When you book your ticket, the airline is not able to actually make inquiry to the Interpol all or even the local police about whether you are wanted or whether your passport has been reported stolen. The country the government does. And according to the Interpol last year alone, passengers were able to board airplane without having their passport screened in the airport databases more than one billion times. The database in airport headquarters contains an astounding 14 billion records of stolen travel documents. 

 

You know the member countries, the 190 members that belong to Interpol, and not charged for any fee in database. So if the country has sufficient resources or technique capability to wire into Interpol’s private virtue network, that’s running 24 hour a day. You know they certainly  will be able to access to that data base and check it. It depends on the will of the country. It is up to the country to set up and do it. The Interpol secretary general said now we have a real case, the world is speculating whether the stolen passport will be terrorists. Well Interpol was arguing why only a couple of countries worldwide are taking care of making sure persons possessing stolen passports are not boarding international flights. 

 

Edward Snowden says he has no regrets about leaking classified documents to the public. Yesterday he asked people in the south by west conference in Texas, to help fix US government surveillance. Snowden is a controversial man. He is a former worker for the National Security Agency, the NSA. He is now living in exile in Russia. Because the US wants him to face charges back home. It says Snowden broke the law when he leaked secrete information about the NSA, specifically, that the spy agency collects American citizen’s phone and internet information. US government says its program help protect Americans by preventing terrorist attack. Snowden supporters see him as a whistle blower who is protecting Americans’ right of privacy. He was telling us at the press conference yesterday. That was the first time he directly addresses to American public since he fled the country. He asked developers in south by west to make security networks for users, so no one including the government can easily access public information.