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. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
