Laptops before 9/11
Apr 7, 2012 | 8:19 pm
#61
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As I'm reading the threads, it made me think of a question that I'm way too young to vividly remember.
I had heard stories that, before 9/11, travelers with laptops would be told, by screeners, to take the laptop out of the bag, turn it on, and show a working laptop, simply to prove to the screener that it's a laptop and not a cache of explosives cleverly packed into a gutted laptop chassis.
Did anyone here ever experience that?
I had heard stories that, before 9/11, travelers with laptops would be told, by screeners, to take the laptop out of the bag, turn it on, and show a working laptop, simply to prove to the screener that it's a laptop and not a cache of explosives cleverly packed into a gutted laptop chassis.
Did anyone here ever experience that?
I also had a screener think they had a big catch of a fake item--a SLR without the lens attached.
Apr 7, 2012 | 10:16 pm
#63
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Join Date: Jul 2000
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Before getting Global Entry, I had my laptop searched a couple of times on the way in. Luckily, they never inquired about what the GRUB menu was for, or the Linux partition -- not that I've ever had anything interesting to find there, but they'd have been completely lost trying to search it.
