It's all security theatre <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater>
anyway.  As difficult as it may be, I'd go after TSA for a replacement.

Eric Fort

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Przemek Klosowski <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:39 AM, acheesehead <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I went through security with one and TSA thought it was suspicious. They
>> put it under the X-Ray machine and stared at it for about a minute. It has
>> been confused since then. Sometimes boots, sometimes not. While a brief
>> exposure is probably OK. A prolonged exposure might fry something.
>>
>> Well, normally, ionizing radiation can only change charge states in
> internal electrical nodes, i.e. flip bits in memory and internal
> CPU/chipset logic. In other words, it can't damage anything permanently.
>
> Theoretically, very high energy Xrays could disrupt crystalline structure
> within the chips, i.e. damage them permanently, but it requires energy and
> intensity much larger than that of an airport Xray machine. Whatever your
> problems are, it's not because of the Xray scan---did the TSA folk
> touch/handle the BBB? if so, they could have zapped it with static
> discharge, which is much deadlier than Xrays.
>
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