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Article #83Re: COMPUTER DISKS THRU AIRPORT X-RAY ? ASAP
From: Alan J Rosenthal
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 13:50
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 13:50
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As others have pointed out, it's probably the metal detectors and the other magnetic fields around an airport which scramble your disks. For floppies, I highly recommend wrapping them in aluminum foil. If people laugh at you, tell them it's a Faraday cage. It really works. You should wrap floppies for local travel too, when they have important data on them (i.e. aren't just copies you're taking from one computer to another).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!dgp.toronto.edu!flaps Newsgroups: comp.security.misc From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) Subject: Re: COMPUTER DISKS THRU AIRPORT X-RAY ? ASAP Message-ID: <1992Aug3.095050.22548@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> References: <15844@pitt.UUCP> Date: 3 Aug 92 13:50:50 GMT Lines: 6