From: Greg (slppj_at_cc.usu.edu)
Date: Thu May 08 1997 - 02:02:22 EDT
Gabriel Ash wrote:
>
> As an aside. The thing most dangerous to notebooks
> in airports are professional notebook thiefs. Keeping
> it close without advertising its existence would be useful.
> there have been alerts in the past about thieves working
> in themes near the x-ray machines.
>
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> Gabriel Ash
> Notre-Dame
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I used to do airport security, and I've asked security personnel at
several airports about this. It doesn't seem to be a very common
problem. Perhaps at some foreign airports but I don't know. A bigger
problem is with stolen checked luggage. Look at it this way, you'd be
pretty bold to steal a computer while heading into a secured area with
security personnel all around. But it's probably not a good idea to
leave any of your belongings unattendened once you're in the
gate/terminal area. Besides being easy prey for thieves it may also be
picked up by security as a suspicious item and in the worste case..
detonated by the bomb squad.
Greg A.
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