Website review: Your laptop is a suitcase: How t...
mivox discovered this in Travel
•7 reviews since Feb 8, 2008
travel, tsa
•upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/02/07/your-lapto...
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mivox discovered 6 months ago- This is utter lunacy. The TSA is completely out of control. If they ever pull this shit on me, I'll be damned tempted to just go back to whatever country I was visiting, and stay.
- booksandme rated 3 months ago
- Read: Protest to your Senator. Non-Americans: backup all files, then ship them home before entering the US. Take a blank computer into the US. Or, rent one. Have your company send you the files you need for your US business trip. Send all files made during your stay home; either through a secure server, or through a shipping agency. Delete all files from the rented computer. Or, you can buy a cheap computer in the US and after deleting your info; you may if truly paranoid destroy the computer. Sad. 'And I Say to Myself, What a [wonderful :{ Not] World". C
- gocamaro69 rated 5 months ago
- I'd flat out refuse. Imprison me, send me back, do as you wish. In fact I'm flying through the US in a week. I'm putting a BIOS password on my laptop right now due to this article alone. I feel for the person who was forced to do this. I've had the misfortune of dealing with the TSA several times and this behaviour doesn't surprise me. Thanks for keeping us all safe TSA...
- Dinasaurus rated 5 months ago
- Wow, I had no idea about this, and I travel with a laptop for work very regularly!
- poogie777 rated 5 months ago
- This is very disturbing information about having your laptop retrieved while traveling. It's just wrong! And to have to give up your passwords and such...wrong, wrong, wrong!
- jynxpup rated 5 months ago
- [At San Francisco International Airport] a tech engineer returning from a business trip to London objected when a federal agent asked him to type his password into his laptop computer. "This laptop doesn't belong to me," he remembers protesting. "It belongs to my company." Eventually, he agreed to log on and stood by as the officer copied the Web sites he had visited.
- eyeflare rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "My view: TSA and any other airport security officers should be there to check the materials you intend to bring into the airport for explosives or weapons. Not for content. Screen the computer to see if itâ€s loaded with plastic explosives, sure. But donâ€t read my e-mail. You shouldnâ€t be editing for content the books I bring onto the plane, you shouldnâ€t be viewing the phone numbers I dialed, or the web sites I accessed unless you have a warrant and I am a suspect in a crime. And even then, such a search should be conducted by appropriate law enforced officers, such as the FBI."
