Well I think this is BS (referring to the act of confiscating as they do not have any right) and if this will really be applied in KSA or other places, it won’t be too difficult for us PC Gurus to find neat tricks to work around this scanner or whatever it is.
I called my friend in KSA and he told me that they didn’t search his laptop nor his flash memory. However he did tell me that they do random checks sometimes on external drives or such but it is not a one by one rule of thumb. I guess I am off to finding ways to encrypt my data, not that I have materials to hide, but more of no way on earth I’d let them see what my drives have in terms of data, family images, …etc. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Yaman Saqqa Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 11:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JoLUG-General] Re: Fwd: [fet97ee] Fw: Fwd: TOP URGENT: SAUDI AIRPORT NEW RULES Unfortunately it is true. Our CFO was coming from Dubai and his Media Storage was confiscated. Another colleague from Gemalto came from Paris and his laptop was confiscated from a stupid semi-nude picture that was on his HD. (Both events last week) On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Husam <[email protected]> wrote: Hello I travel to Riyadh once every two weeks and i never been searched for media, some people reported their external HD being searched for movies but never laptops Any way its still a critical breach to privacy Regards, On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Fadi Kahhaleh <[email protected]> wrote: My friend traveled to KSA yesterday noon, I'll send him an email to see if he has been put into any of this nonsense or not. However, I am a true believer that spam mail is 98% false and a hoax so I am just doing to help shed some truth into this rather than keep it a speculation in our community. Regard, Fadi -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gaith Sa Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 8:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JoLUG-General] Re: Fwd: [fet97ee] Fw: Fwd: TOP URGENT: SAUDI AIRPORT NEW RULES guys is this true!!!!!!!!!!!, not caring about nude photos - i have non and never had-, but where is privacy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is there a way to work around thissssssss, if this news is true then this is so lameeeeeeee lameeeeeee and against our privacyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Mahmoud Alnaanah<[email protected]> wrote: > هذه الرسالة تلقيتها من صديق لي. لا أعلم مدى صحتها. هل لديكم أي تعليق > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ahmad Ammouri <[email protected]> > Date: 2009/7/14 > Subject: [fet97ee] Fw: Fwd: TOP URGENT: SAUDI AIRPORT NEW RULES > To: electrical group [email protected]? > > > > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ---- > From: shaik abdullah <[email protected]> > To: [email protected]; Zubair Abidin <[email protected]>; suhaib > aiyrout <[email protected]>; Ahmad Ammouri <[email protected]>; > Ahmed Ammouri <[email protected]>; Shahabuddin Syed > <[email protected]>; nasrullah <[email protected]>; > [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 4:53:58 PM > Subject: Fwd: TOP URGENT: SAUDI AIRPORT NEW RULES > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mohammed Mustafa <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:04 PM > Subject: TOP URGENT: SAUDI AIRPORT NEW RULES > To: > > > Dearest All, > > Please be advised that all Airports in Saudi Arabia have a new rule > regarding arriving Overseas workers carrying electronic devices. This has > not been published to the public, but please advice all our workers who are > traveling to K.S.A. > > All Electronic devices will be submitted for check up before immigration > section. > > Devices includes Cellular phones with camera and memory card, flash disks, > external hard drive, Laptops / notebooks / pc, ipod, itouch, mp3 players > with memory cards. > A special USB device will be inserted to the electonic devices that you are > carrying. This special device can scan all videos and pictures, jpg, bmp, > avi, etc, contents of your laptap / cellphones, and will be recorded to > their main computer. > All devices with nude pictures in it will be confiscated immediately. There > will be no fines, and refusal will send you to jail and deportation. > Laptops with pirated software’s will also be confiscated. > > This rule has been applied already and is being practice in Riyadh, Dammam > and Jeddah Airports. This is excluding Bahrain airport. > > FYI, the special device was invented by a Filipino. > > Kindly include this in your orientation with the workers and tell them not > to bring any pirated softwares, movies, or nude pictures. Even datas that > are hidden can be found by this device, so tell them not to bring any at > all. The laptap of one of my friend, a Sony Viao, which cost around 8T SR, > was confiscated a few days ago, because of 1 semi nude picture that he > forgot to erase. > > > > > ________________________________ > Disclaimer: Internet communications are not secure and therefore Bupa does > not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Any views > or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily > represent those of Bupa. The information in this email is intended only for > the named recipient and may be privileged or confidential. 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