🚀 go-pugleaf

Even if they insist, refuse to do it...  I know of people who have lost both
floppies and hard drives to the x-ray machines.  Whether or not it was the
x-rays, or the magnetic fields from the belt motors is unknown.

I have run the gauntlet of airport security several times-- some are cool about
it, some are a pain in the ass.

various cases:
* let me through with just a hand-check of the hard drive/Mac bag.
* asked me to power up the hard drive
* asked me to power up hard drive and Mac
* asked me to power up hard drive, when the hard drive didn't do anything
  paticularly exciting (I told them it wouldn't...), they told me to x-ray it.
  I refused.  Eventually the chief of that airlines security came down and had
  me sign a 'Unusual device on concourse' form.
* had me sign the form w/o all the other garbage

Basically, if you keep your sense of humour about you, the whole experience
could turn out to be quite amusing. I have posted a couple of messages
summarizing a couple of my experiences.  Without a sense of humour, it could
be quite infuriating...
Remember to take a power cord with the drive.

b.bum
wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu