It happened on February 14, 2016 in Casablanca, Morocco. A strange sequence of events began unfolding in the early morning hours and spanned two airports and hundreds of miles, linked by a solitary transaction that took less than 30 seconds. The impact of that transaction may never be known, but without a doubt just the existence of the practice is wreaking havoc on aviation security around the world.

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