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From: apn@nonvon.uucp (Alex P Novickis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Laptops and Airport Security
Message-ID: <1988Feb1.235615.2612@nonvon.uucp>
Date: 2 Feb 88 07:56:12 GMT
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Reply-To: apn@nonvon.UUCP (Alexander Paul Novickis)
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Keywords: Laptop, X-rays

In article <961@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> windley@iris.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley) writes:
>With all this talk about laptops and xrays going around, I'd like to
>know what anyone can do about it.  If you want to take your laptop on
>the plane, it will be xrayed.
>
>--phil--
>
>Phil Windley
>Robotics Research Lab
>University of California, Davis


No need for X-rays.   I recently traveled from SFO to El Paso/TX and back
thru San Diego.   I hand carried a laptop with me... all the security
asked me to, after I refused to have it x-rayed, was to "Plug it in". I did,
and they watched the machine boot... and that apparently convinced their
naive little brains, that it was indeed not a bomb. Nor did it pose any
safety threat .... whatsoever.   Oh well.  And ... I suppose I could tell
you some stories about customs agents... but that is best left for another
posting.   After all this, I have such confidence in security, flying and
am totally amazed at how *ANYONE* could possible smuggle anything "dangerous"
onto a plane.  HA!!!


-Alex P Novickis
( Oh, and in this case, these opinions are my employers, as I am he )


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