Begin forwarded message:
From: Benjamin Kuipers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: August 10, 2006 6:01:10 PM EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IP] results of uk ban
From reading the restrictive lists, it appears that you can't even
carry on a book to read, or a notebook to write in.
This amounts to being sentenced to spend a trans-Atlantic flight
watching television or movies, or listening to the airlines' choice
of listening matter. Shades of "1984", where each citizen is
required to own a television set, which it is illegal to turn off!
Ben
At 3:26 PM -0400 8/10/06, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Dan Gillmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: August 10, 2006 2:24:29 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [IP] Digest 1.1101 for ip
Laptops coming out of Heathrow are going into luggage you're
forbidden to
lock in the first place. Then your luggage in the hands of poorly paid
airline employees (many of whose wages have been cut by 25-50
percent in the
past few years) and government workers (some of whom may also be
interested
in what's on your hard disks). Phones and other handhelds, not to
mention
various kinds of valuables no longer allowed in carry-on bags, will be
especially prone to pilfering.
A lot of folks coming to the U.S. will be inclined not to fly via
London if
this system stays in place, and not fly, period, if it spreads to
other
airports. It's hard to imagine much business travel surviving in
such an
environment.
In the UK, they've banned people from taking electronic equipment on
planes: that means laptop computers, mobile phones, and iPods among
other items.
--
Benjamin Kuipers, Professor email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computer Sciences Department tel: 1-512-471-9561
University of Texas at Austin fax: 1-512-471-8885
Austin, Texas 78712 USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers
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