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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Laptops and Airport Security
Message-ID: <1900@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 88 19:37:20 GMT
References: <4426@garfield.UUCP> <2133@chinet.UUCP> <3079@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> In article <2133@chinet.UUCP> briane@chinet.UUCP (Brian Ebert) writes:
> >
> >I frequently fly with a pc convertible.  It always gets x-rayed and I've
> >never had a problem with the computer.  What bothers me is how the machine
> >looks on the x-ray machine.  All that electronics and wire sure would
> >make a good disguise for a bomb.
> 
> I once flew from Denver to Chicago to Toronto carrying an overnight bag
> filled with wire, batteries, circuit boards, and chips, in a very jumbled
> up and un-computerlike arrangement (sort of like a bomb).  These were all
> parts of a project I was working on while in Colorado for the summer.  This
> mess went through X-ray twice, and never did anyone ask any questions.  I
> even saw it on the screen myself, and it looked as suspicious as you 
> could possibly imagine.  Gives you great confidence in airport security
> doesn't it?
> 
> Stefan Vorkoetter
> University of Waterloo

Hell, no one's watching those things anyway.  I had a colleague who made a
practice of carrying a lead-lined bag in his carry on luggage.  The 21st
time he tried to board a plane, someone asked to look inside.

I'm not all surprised that 20% of FAA smuggled guns made it through.

Clayton E. Cramer