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Anonymous
nobody at replay.com
Fri Sep 18 09:05:40 PDT 1998
So I fly home Friday from San Jose. Probably because I was
in a hurry, after walking through the magnetometer and x-raying
my stuff, a security dude grabbed my laptop and said he wanted
to 'analyze' it. Yeah sure whatever, I decided not to protest
I was late for my flight.
This analysis, it turned out, was wiping a coffee filter over the strap
of its bag, and sticking the coffee filter into a slot on a machine.
No solvent even. The machine had columns labelled TNT RDX NITRO PETN HMX.
I recognized the first four as high explosives. Later, I wondered
if people with angina (who take nitro orally) ever set this off.
Most of them, of course, are not bearded eastern-european/semetic
guys in their 30's who look worried and in a hurry.
Anyway, that was it, and I made my flight. Didn't even open
the laptop's case.
The machine name was ION-something; I wonder whether it sucked vapors
from the fiber disk or whether it was a neutron-spectrometer (?) device.
(Had this been a UK Customs 'inspection' of the contents of the disk, I
might have had to explain the half-gig of "noise" I have on the disk.
Only, it really is noise. Really.)
Anyway, the moral of the story:
Don't store your laptop with your explosives :-)
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