Credentials without Identity--Race Bits

Lucky Green shamrock at netcom.com
Thu Dec 26 12:58:51 PST 1996


At 06:31 AM 12/26/96 -0800, Ian Goldberg wrote:
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>In article <1.5.4.32.19961221065041.003d70c8 at popd.ix.netcom.com>,
>Bill Stewart  <stewarts at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>And that's not even counting the "You must turn on your laptop" crap.
>
>I just took my first flight with a laptop (USair), and, having heard
>stories like the above, was wondering how "on" the laptop would have to
>be (past the powerup password check?  I hope they're not expecting
>Windoze...).

In my frequent travels by plane, airport security never wanted to see more
than the memory check. [How much of the insides of a laptop could be
removed to get a memory count display? I'd guess most of it.]



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