New Laptop Polices

Sat Aug 12 13:11:13 UTC 2006

Given that business executives need their laptops, and that they
largely fly commercial across the Atlantic, I suspect that any
ban on laptops will not last long.

Regards
Marshall

On Aug 12, 2006, at 8:08 AM, Barton F. Bruce wrote:

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>
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>> Given the new threats and the change in policy with the airlines and
>> traveling in and around the UK, has anyone changed their laptop and
>> portable computing device policy?  We are being questioned about the
>> safety of executives traveling with their laptops.
>
> You have just lost a valuable shield and weapon!
>
> No longer will you have an almost closed laptop lid to tuck your  
> fingers
> under while parrying box-cutter thrusts with the base of the laptop  
> used as
> a shield.
>
> And no more ULTIMATE frisbee with rectangular corners or hand held  
> blunt
> hatchet to crunch holes in a hijacker's skull.
>
> And viewing it as a more civilized weapon, you have now been  
> deprived of the
> means to play for your seat row-mate's enlightenment any of the  
> myriad of
> 9/11 DVDs, that an ever growing hoard will proclaim prove 9/11  
> could not
> possibly have been done by those we have been told did it, or, even  
> better,
> some of which present compelling arguments that 9/11 was the much  
> desired
> and occasionally mentioned "2nd Pearl Harbor" to be orchestrated to  
> forward
> various non publicised but very domestic agendas.
>
> I suspect dumb thin clients are in many of our futures. Rental  
> shops or
> company branch offices will be well stocked with inexpensive units and
> whatever you need to run boots up from a DVD or USB thumb drive.   
> It is hard
> to leave anything sensitive on a machine that has no hard drive.
>
> Pity the folks gearing up to sell internet access on flights.  
> Perhaps per
> seat video screens double as thin client monitors. Watch the  
> business grow
> of the first airline offering such service.
>
> Or we will have to wait until the next president, if we are even  
> allowed to
> have elections under marshall law after a 9/11 jumbo-REDUX someone  
> we should
> hope is protecting us might even be working on right now.
>
> The single biggest thing that is bypassing a feckless or even  
> "owned" press
> is the internet, and our job is to keep it as free and as open as  
> possible.
>