Well, let's see...just in the past month, I have been required to leave behind my Treo because of the camera (non-camera phones were permitted) at the entrance to an oil refinery, a chemical plant, an auto-parts manufacturing plant, an industrial design firm, a grain silo, a food manufacturing plant, etc. etc. -- and I wasn't going to be leaving the administrative office area at any of those places!
Lots of businesses are worried about industrial espionage as well as "national security," and it is easier to administer a blanket prohibition than try to apply (admittedly reasonable) criteria to pick and choose who is likely to be a risk. Of course, one security guy told me with glee about the flap that resulted when the foreign CEO of a major multinational was required to surrender his camera phone at his own US subsidiary. It's a pain, but I never like to interrupt a meeting to answer my phone anyway, and as long as they let me keep my laptop, I have everything (for business) that's on my Treo anyway. --- In [email protected], Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, IGGY & Svetlana. > > >Unless you work for some highly sensitive military or national security > >agency or a law firm or whatever other "big brother watching" outfit, I am > >yet to see a single case of not allowing me to bring my 650 in. Is this your > >situation? Then it sucks :o( > > I had to leave my Treo at the security desk when I had jury duty. > Because it has a camera. > <snip> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/treo/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
