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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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