At 03:33 PM 9/22/98 +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
Mark Hahn wrote:
2) If you can't leave your floppy at home, carry your sensitive data on a PCMCIA Type-II Hard Drive. Kingston sells one sporting 500MB of capacity. Pop it out and put it as far away from the laptop as you can. Inside your other luggage somewhere.
I am ignorant about hardware. Question: Wouldn't it be possible to somehow put information on a music CD?
Sure. Simply trade offs of what's important to you and the situation you might be in. If disguise is a primary factor, then a write once music CD would be excellent. If you need re-writable capability, use a CD-RW (re-writable CD). However a CD-RW appears gold underneath, not sliver-ish, so you have less of a disguise. If you need fast random access, then neither version of CD will be suitable. Hence the PCMCIA Hard Disk. However, you may have difficulty coming up with a cover story if, indeed, you do not want to tell a customs officer, "Oh, yeah, that's a portable disk drive". As another trade off, most Laptops don't have CD-ROM writing drives, so you would need an outboard drive. There are probably slick, portable versions available, but that's more junk to lug through the airport (and to explain, if necessary.) Also, I was trying to suggest something practical to address the problem. I.e. can be done in a week and under $500. Some of us could re-write the BIOS and flash in the update in that time frame. Others of us will find a credit card and mail order an easier route to take. (uh... minus the lack of anonymity of buying mail order....) -MpH -------- Mark P. Hahn Work: 212-278-5861 mhahn@tcbtech.com Home: 609-275-1834 TCB Technologies, Inc (mhahn@tcbtech.com) Consultant to: The SoGen Funds 1221 Avenue of the Americas, NY NY