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Security Tips for Traveling with Tech Gear

Posted by michael on from the slip-off-shoes dept.

securitas writes "Many Slashdotters will be traveling during the next week and PC World has an article about how to travel with tech gear with a minimum of security hassles. The Transport Security Administration maintains an allowable and banned items list (PDF) that you might want to check. Make sure that you have fully charged batteries for any tech gifts you received. I've had big hassles with all the tech gear that I routinely carry, especially when combining business trips with a vacation. One security screener even asked me to log in, decrypt and look at files on my notebook's desktop, which was unnecessarily invasive (not to mention against my then-employer's security policy). He settled for viewing the secure login screen 'to make sure it worked.' Any other horror stories out there?"

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP

  2. President Howard Dean by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah I'll bring the troops home.Home to a war crimes trial in the Hague for those republican baby killers.UN justice for our uniformed war criminals.
    The UN can punish our military AND run the internet at the same time .Vote Dean for AmeriKKKa and I'll turn it into the Union of Soviet States of America!

  3. Mod parent up, or somehting. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Amazing. I hadn't seen a soviet russian joke for ages. This really made my day.

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