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> > > > As an aside. The thing most dangerous to notebooks > > in airports are professional notebook thiefs. Keeping > > it close without advertising its existence would be useful. > > there have been alerts in the past about thieves working > > in themes near the x-ray machines. > > Good advice. To elaborate, here's how it works. You put your notebook on > the conveyor belt. You get in line to go through the metal detector, but > the guy in front of you (an accomplice to the thief) keeps setting off the > alarm. You are stuck behind him while the other member of the team grabs > your notebook and runs. > Be ware! > no, he doesn't run, he walks - and probably after putting your very-obviously- a-laptop-carry-case into a larger carry bag, that's not so obviously holding a laptop. there are other ways this is done of course. if you are looking for something to worry about at airports, how about what's been packaged inside the laptop that hasn't been thoroughly checked and is coming onto the flight you are on? regards, al Alden S Klovdahl / alden.klovdahl@anu.edu.au / fax: +61 62 49 05 25 Sociology Arts / Australian National University / Canberra ACT Australia 0200