[Wikimania-l] CD

[phoebe ayers]

Ah, well, I got 45 minutes of questioning -- a good chance to explain
Wikimedia governance to the nice young lady at security ("so what do
you do for wikipedia again?") The board is pretty suspicious! :)

Having the conference materials handy as well as reasonable
documentation of your other travels, and business cards if applicable,
is useful. In addition to general questions about the conference (who
was on the program, etc) I also got asked for my university ID (where
I work) and when I booked the tickets and so on -- agreed with Marcin
that a lot of this is just to catch you out to see if there are
inconsistencies and nervousness.  But I figure not everyone gets this
full questioning!

-- phoebe

ps there is no CD, afaik.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Harel Cain <harel.cain at gmail.com> wrote:
> All credit goes to Arthur Schnitzler and his beautiful novella
> "Traumnovelle", on which Kubrick's movie is based.
>
> It never ceases to amaze me what a huge diffrence between the treatment that
> visitors and locals get at TLV. Even though I fly out quite often, for many
> years now my longest questioning was maybe 2 minutes, and my luggage was not
> manually searched at all.
>
> Harel
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 22:04, Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info> wrote:
>>
>> > Who told the security staff at Ben Gurion that CDs have been distributed
>> > as
>> > part of the welcoming pack of Wikimania? Jeromy and I were requested to
>> > show
>> > the "CD you received from Wikimania" and we haven't got any.
>>
>> One of the psychological techniques used by the security agencies is to
>> explicitly ask for something not true and wait for denial.  The truth
>> (whether there were CDs or not) is not really relevant to this question
>> - it's how you react. Probably you are suspicious if you answer 100%
>> questions
>> correctly and without any hesitation. Those interviews shouldn't be
>> treated
>> like a school test - it's not about getting as much correct answers as
>> possible.
>>
>> For an example of a successful use of this technique, see Stanley
>> Kubrick's movie
>> "Eyes Wide Shut", the scene during the party at the manor (not recommended
>> for people sensitive about explicit scenes, usual disclaimers apply).
>>
>> //Marcin
>>
>>