home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!bp112
- From: bp112@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven C. Lin)
- Subject: Re: X-Rays
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.024447.105@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: cwns1.ins.cwru.edu
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 02:44:47 GMT
- Lines: 21
-
-
- I believe it may be that the airport guards in Europe are simply
- more security conscious. A few years ago, after just getting a
- camcorder and taking it on vacation (in US and Canada, not Europe),
- I passed it to the security guards who just looked it over and
- okayed it. But again, that media is magnetic tape also, so
- presumably would not be ruined. However, that incident was before
- the Pan Am 103 disaster in Europe, in which (I think) a bomb was
- planted that looked like a radio of some type. Now, I imagine,
- the European guards are much more suspicious of any type of
- electronic equipment, including laptops, whereas the American
- guards, having seen considerably less terrorism than their
- European counterparts are probably a little more likely to just
- let someone's laptop go on by (unless, of course, it's ticking!)
-
- (Of course, the above was just a feeble guess, as I have no
- real knowledge of x-ray systems, rules and regs, etc!!)
-
- Steve Lin
- bp112@cleveland.freenet.edu
-