Russell Kohn wrote: > Alright, this topic was addressed soon after Sept. 11th, > but I thought that since many more months have passed and > security has changed some and perhaps more people have > taken wearables through airports, I would bring it up > again. So, the question is: What sort of security > problems do people have with wearables in airports? Two years ago I assembled my wearable on the plane, fired it up, used the GPS, and showed it to the crew, including flight attendants and one of the pilots. They thought it was cool and chatted with me for hours! Needless to say that wouldn't be the case today. They probably would have wrestled me to the ground. Times have certainly changed. http://wearables.blu.org/wear-hard-00/2000552.html http://wearables.blu.org/wear-hard-00/20005020.html > Do the guards stop you? Do they make you turn it on? open > the case? how much time does it take? <snip> I can't > imagine how an uneducated security guard would react to > a little metal box with connectors on the end.... why > shouldn't he think its a bomb?! The stuff I used to carry around, internationally, looked exactly like a terrorist toolkit. Lots of tools, wire cutters, soldering irons, various colored wires, many little home brew circuits, antennas, adapters, etc. I took those all over the world, into china, japan, and many european countries. The ironic thing is that airport security was brain dead, they were trained ONLY to look at laptops. I usually had a laptop, so they made me turn that on. No problem. Yet they didn't look at the rest of the gadgetry. And the laptop was actually blocking out all of the other stuff from the x-ray. I assume that they are more thorough these days. SFO would ALWAYS run a sample taken from the handle of my bags into their little chemical analyzer though, and countless times I've been asked to lift my hat! (funny, considering what was in my bags). I'm still quite surprised that I never got detained or questioned. The strictest questioning I had was going into customs in australia, and they were looking for food and bugs, basically introduction of foreign species. They have beagles (dogs) roaming around sniffing everyone. -- Doug -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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