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From: mitra@cdp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Laptops and Airports
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Date: 5 May 89 21:34:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!mitra    May  5 14:34:00 1989


I have usually managed to get any machine I am carrying checked
by hand (if it has a hard disk) but did get a lot of disk
errors after not succeeding one time.

Beware - Heathrow airport (and I suspect any other UK one)
absolutely refuse to check by hand (except floppies which I've
had no trouble anywhere with).

I understand the security considerations but couldnt we lobby
for some form of "Fragile" category for checked baggage -
carried on by the passenger but not X-Rayed and NOT available
to the passenger in flight. Every time I persuade someone a box
is a computer I realise how easy it would be to hide something
in it.

- Mitra