travel with your laptop overseas... lookout for this...

[NS]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscJpQ9faQA

^nothing, just a reminder to all members who travel overseas with your laptop...

[Temetka]

I would inflict bodily harm on anyone who tried to steal my laptop.

That being said, in the U.S. you have to pull the machine out of the bag at the checkpoint. Or that is what they made me do at Ontario International (It's in California, not Canada).

[dr_st]

Yep, when I traveled from Israel to the US and back, I always took the laptop out of the bag at these checkpoints, and I followed it closely all the time. It would be quite hard to steal it (although possible to steal something else from my bag while I watch the laptop)

[ryengineer]

That being said, in the U.S. you have to pull the machine out of the bag at the checkpoint. Or that is what they made me do at Ontario International (It's in California, not Canada).

Exactly, whenever I travel from LAX they make me do so too. London Heathrow has the same policy, infact they also demand you to take off your shoes, matter of national security, I guess.

[goofyGAguy]

You can thank Richard Reid for that.

[egibbs]

Actually, the bigger worry for those who travel with a laptop internationally may be Customs - US or other.

Saw an article a while back about seizeures of laptops by US customs. Seems they have the right to take your machine and keep it indefinitely while they check it for contraband - kiddie porn, A-bomb secrets, evidence of money laundering, or anything else they feel like looking for.

Indefinitely can mean exactly that - not 10 minutes while they scan the drive but a year or more in some cases, with no explanation given and no charges ever filed.

Ed Gibbs

[jdhurst]

I know Country Governments have the right, but I think they need a reason as well. I have moved my T41 in and out of the US, Canada, England, and Europe without issue. I run my briefcase through the scanners, so it is not like they don't know I have one.
... JDH