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- From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: OK to pass diskette through airport X-ray?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.100300.19800@tdb.uu.se>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 10:03:00 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.180213.10893@news.stolaf.edu>
- Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
- Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
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- Christopher A. Smith (smithc@amcl7.math.stolaf.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec17.055403.2955@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> yu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Chen-Kuang Yu) writes:
- : >Hi,
- : >
- : > 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?
- : >
- : > Thanks in advance.
- : >
- : >/Chen
- :
- :
- : The best recommendation is that you just take the disks out before
- : going through the security checkpoint and hand them to the security
- : personnel there. They can hand-check 'em... Same thing for Syquest
- : and other removable cartridges, and computers themselves (you'll be
- : asked to turn it on, anyway, if they see it on the monitor)...
-
- When I was working at an airport, I never hand-checked disks. The owners
- had to put them through the x-ray.
-
- /Mats
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