From: Don Perley (perley_at_cadence.com)
Date: Thu May 08 1997 - 11:58:59 EDT
At 11:29 AM 5/8/97 -0400, John Kim wrote:
>
>Most airports (international AND domestic) won't let you walk
>through the metal detectors nowadays unless you have a ticket.
I've probably taken over 50 flights in the last year, covering maybe
8 airports. Only once,
on a foriegn airline's terminal, have I needed a ticket to get
in the gate area.
>It seems an awful lot of work and risk to forge/buy two tickets
>just to get a shot at stealing a laptop from right in front of
>a bunch of security guards, where the only escape route (other
>than getting on a plane, for which the thief must buy a real
>ticket) is back past the same security guards.
Big city airports (ie chicago, washington) have multiple exits
>from the gate areas. Most computer cases are pretty anonymous
looking, and in a team effort the guy taking it out won't be the
same guy who stole it.
-Don Perley
perley_at_cadence.com
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