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[Anonymous]

>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.
.....
>The machine name was ION-something; I wonder whether it sucked vapors
>from the fiber disk or whether it was a neutron-spectrometer (?) device.

Try asking them where they've posted the California Prop 65 warning
indicating which toxic chemicals are used in the system :-)