-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In list.cypherpunks, Black Unicorn wrote:
I challenge you to find an airport today that will not hand inspect laptops in checked bagage and either x-ray or hand inspect or both laptops carried on.
MSP (Minneapolis/St. Paul) security personnel have let my work laptop through security 3 times in the last couple of months. In the past year, I have carried it through Kansas City, Atlanta, Louisville, Dallas/Ft. Worth and San Antonio without anything more than an x-ray screening (which would only turn up a non-laptop, anyway). On the occasions I've seen somebody else getting the "boot scan", it's never gone past the BIOS screen. Airport security personnel, as a class, are completely ignorant about computers. I've gotten more flack for a knife in my belt buckle. (a lot more, actually, but that's another story...) - -- Roy M. Silvernail [ ] roy@scytale.com DNRC Minister Plenipotentiary of All Things Confusing, Software Division PGP Public Key fingerprint = 31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54 13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6 Key available from pubkey@scytale.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMlNKpxvikii9febJAQEjEwQAjh5v92rtJAGZtWDjifSGZ56ig65Nydir momhzBCmh0f+pADJdEmG39H8fl856ePA6gpnqZBnnlA4ariPy0ecrSst7rSUjI0E +rSiJtfmmJmo9zLWubbil/6vPAzPX6Z4V0tsT2FT3WONvCjkcSnQcfaOmcx+20is yNBSBLZvwu0= =AuKR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----