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Edward Jaffe wrote:
Ed Finnell wrote:
We had a CE working 9370 support out of White Plains and he got sent
on a sevcrit to Montreal. Got stopped at customs and they confiscated
his 'tool kit' not made in Canada. He went by the hardware store on
the way in and bought a new one. Charged the customer retail rates
with the clock running. Nobody said a peep...
I went to Edmonton, Alberta in the early 1990s to install some
software at a customer site. Canadian customs found my tape (this was
before CDs & downloads), took me into a back room, and grilled me for
at least an hour about what I was carrying, why I was there, who I was
meeting, etc. They rifled through all of my bags and inspected
*everything* right down to my underwear. They had one of those little
goose-neck desk lamps pointed at me that were so cliche for
interrogations on comedy shows. It was all I could do to keep a
straight face. I think they were upset that I wasn't taking them
seriously enough...
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Like I keep saying: there's a fine line between security and paranoia;
which side are we on?
--
Rick
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Remember that if you’re not the lead dog, the view never changes.
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