Ironically, his unauthorized access to the customs hall was recorded by a new technology introduced the same year Von Holtum was caught, and designed to sound alarm bells.Security systems can be complex, especially in places like airports. For them to work, they have to bee well planned and someone has to be paying attention to them. In this case, it looks like there wasn't a mechanism in place to bring several instances of odd behavior to the attention of officials.
Billed in January of 2007 by the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority as "the world's first dual biometric airport identification program for non-passengers acccessing restricted areas of the airport," the RAIC (Restricted Area Identity Card) program was designed to detect and record the comings and goings of airport personnel, including whenever they enter restricted zones.
Security technology, however awesome, can't manage an organization. People have to do that.
On the other hand, security is usually redundant and provided in layers. The hundred-or-so pounds of cocaine, after all, was seized.
