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- From: neath@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Ian Neath)
- Subject: Re: OK to pass diskette through airport X-ray?
- Message-ID: <BzELGq.329@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Summary: Yes, if you don't mind the risk
- Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
- Organization: Purdue University
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:31:37 GMT
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- In <1992Dec17.055403.2955@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, yu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
- (Chen-Kuang Yu) writes:
-
- > Is it alright to pass diskettes through airport X-ray? Is it
- > ok if I include them in the luggage? Are they as sensitive as the
- > harddisk to strong magnetization?
-
- A year or two ago MacUser did a pretty good test. One of the people
- who writes the hints page ran some disks through the x-ray machines
- 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 times. He got no problems with the once or twice
- disks but quite a few read errors with the 4 and 5 times disk.
-
- Rule of thumb: if you don't mind losing your data, send it through.
- If your data is valuable, don't send it through. In the US, you can
- request (and obtain) a non-xray search.
-
- --
- Ian Neath | There are four kinds of people in this world:
- neath@psych.purdue.edu | cretins, fools, morons and lunatics - U. Eco
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