Do countries get the manifest of every passenger that's flying through their airspace? Who knows who's boarded on a plane?
In regards to the Belarus Forces Down Plane to Seize Dissident; Europe Sees ‘State Hijacking’ I wonder if the Belarus intelligence was handed the manifest as a routine or they somehow got access through it using spyware?
In a more general form of a question, who knows about the manifest? When I buy a ticket on Kayak.com or any other website for that matter who gets to know that I'm flying on that plane? I suppose:
- The website I bought
- The origin, destination and transit airports
- The airlines used for travel
- The airspace of every country I enter ??????
Any other entity that gets to know?
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To answer the part of your question I quote here:
I wonder if the Belarus intelligence was handed the manifest as a routine or they somehow got access through it using spyware?
That would be "SIGINT". This particular operation was done with HUMINT: Roman Protasevitch was physically followed into the airport and up to the counter by an agent who queued up directly behind, and snuck photographs of documents being presented.
Protasevitch noticed all this, and notified friends of the encounter via Telegram, a messaging app, presumably before boarding the flight.
Protasevitch continued on the flight anyway, perhaps not knowing an EU internal flight would cross Belarus.
Aside from the fighter jet, there were also reportedly three intelligence service agents who rode the plane also, but disembarked in Belarus. One could ask on aviation.se whether such agents would have the means to force the aircraft to divert to an enroute airport.
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Presuming you used a credit card for the transaction, that is no longer a secret.
In one sense, cardholders are safer from identity theft than ever before. At the same time, they’re now shopping in a panopticon, with companies tracking and analyzing their purchases in near real time. It’s never been tougher to know who’s out there watching and selling this data—to say nothing of who’s buying.
You'd think it's anonymous but
But it isn’t so anonymous. In 2015, de Montjoye and colleagues at MIT took a data set containing three months’ worth of credit card transactions by 1.1 million unnamed people, and found that, 90% of the time, they could identify an individual if they knew the rough details (the day and the shop) of four of that person’s purchases.
I would readily presume anyone taking interest, even just a PI not to mention the intelligence services of a state, could easily figure out all my transactions.
But yes, in this case this was HUMINT but there are many ways this could've happened.
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