Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:43:34AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:27, Hubert Chan wrote:
> > You can even use a stock laptop, but fill one of your peripherals with
> > explosives. Getting around airport security is pretty trivial. (You
> > can even go to the Tim Horton's in the gate area, and get an orange
> > juice. It comes in a nice glass bottle, that can be easily turned into
> > a cutting instrument.) Great, after posting this, I bet CSIS (the
> > Canadian intelligence agency) will be knocking on my door.
>
> Another thing, you can't take an opened bottle of alcohol on Canadian flights
> (and probably many other countries too). I lost half a bottle of 16yo Scotch
> to this...
>
> They claim that the risk is of taking something flammable or explosive in the
> bottle. However they don't bother about bottles of mineral water, so a
> terrorist could fill a water bottle with something clear such as methylated
> spirits.
So you had to drink it fast, did you?
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