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Re:Israel airport security stole my laptop by onetimemanytime on Monday January 28, 2019 @11:14AM (#19018596)
Must've triggered something when they questioned you. Maybe you just made yourself non-Grata over there too by sharing this story.

At least they should have said, wait, let's clone it and here is your laptop back. Unless they suspected you of economic espionage or whatever and didn't you to have it with you. Either way, unless charged with a crime it's theft.

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Re:Israel airport security stole my laptop by andrepd on Monday January 28, 2019 @11:32AM (#19018769)
They murder medics, outside their border, among other Geneva code violations. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for justice on a laptop "confiscation".
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Re:Israel airport security stole my laptop by megous on Monday January 28, 2019 @11:42AM (#19018858)
> Unless they suspected you of economic espionage...

This also may be a part of industrial espionage done by Israel.

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Re:Israel airport security stole my laptop by onetimemanytime on Monday January 28, 2019 @12:22PM (#19019187)
Great point. His work may be of extreme value to Israel. And you can't argue with airport security
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Re:Israel airport security stole my laptop by cazum on Monday January 28, 2019 @11:17AM (#19018614)
It's not theft because that would require Israeli law condemn the action. Given the kind of things they currently do at other border crossings, I wouldn't hold your breath on that one.
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