From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 12:58:51 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Credentials without Identity--Race Bits
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19961226125016.006bb764@netcom13.netcom.com>
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At 06:31 AM 12/26/96 -0800, Ian Goldberg wrote:
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>In article <1.5.4.32.19961221065041.003d70c8@popd.ix.netcom.com>,
>Bill Stewart  <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>And that's not even counting the "You must turn on your laptop" crap.
>
>I just took my first flight with a laptop (USair), and, having heard
>stories like the above, was wondering how "on" the laptop would have to
>be (past the powerup password check?  I hope they're not expecting
>Windoze...).

In my frequent travels by plane, airport security never wanted to see more
than the memory check. [How much of the insides of a laptop could be
removed to get a memory count display? I'd guess most of it.]



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