Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:27, Hubert Chan wrote:
>
> 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.
Not true everywhere. Flying out of SFO, I was asked to open two bottles
of water in my carryon so that the screeners could smell them.
I had a cup of coffee with me, and they asked me to take a sip of it
before going through. (There's a security failure here, if you think
about it.)
Maybe I just look swarthy and dangerous.
-j
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Jamie Lawrence jal@jal.org
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