Brace for Chaos If U.S. Expands Airline Laptop Ban

Re:Brace for Chaos If U.S. Expands Airline Laptop Ban by marklyon on Monday May 15, 2017 @06:47PM (#14345862)

You don't. You buy a $200 beater laptop and use that for travel. Load only what is necessary to remote back into your network. Don't carry any other data on it.

If it gets stolen or searched, no loss. Just buy the cheapest thing you find at an electronics store at the destination.

My old org kept a bunch of used thinkpads for this purpose. International travelers were prohibited from taking their work devices, just a loaner and a Remote Desktop client.

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Re:Brace for Chaos If U.S. Expands Airline Laptop Ban by scrollaway on Monday May 15, 2017 @07:37PM (#14346172)

Hey I have this sick idea: How about we instead let passengers carry laptops on planes?

Wouldn't that be a hell of a lot simpler?

Wait, no, you're right, it's inherently dangerous. In fact, it's so dangerous, that in the past decade during which we've let people do just that, hundreds millions of people have died (Maybe some of that was old age, but we can't be sure it's not laptop-on-plane related).

Clearly something has to change.

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Re:Brace for Chaos If U.S. Expands Airline Laptop Ban by marklyon on Monday May 15, 2017 @10:05PM (#14346853)

I don't get to control what the TSA does. I do get to control how I handle the problems they create.

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Re:Brace for Chaos If U.S. Expands Airline Laptop Ban by MereInterest on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @04:47AM (#14348235)

> The wise man adapts himself to the world, while the fool tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the fool.

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Re:Brace for Chaos If U.S. Expands Airline Laptop Ban by wavefunction on Monday May 15, 2017 @06:49PM (#14345880)

Sounds like a whole lot of work for me for absolutely no reason at all.

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