US Government recommends weighing laptop before and after each visit to China

Re:US Government recommends weighing laptop before and after... by GiraffeNecktie on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @12:38PM (#826185)

Why would you weigh the laptop? For malicious devices? The article doesn't make that clear and it doesn't seem to make that much sense.

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Re:US Government recommends weighing laptop before and after... by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @12:59PM (#826242)

Yes.

There are all sorts of nifty pieces of electronics that can be put inside of laptops.

You don't have to break a RSA key if you can just read the password off the keyboard.

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Re:US Government recommends weighing laptop before and after... by hughprime on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @01:18PM (#826298)

Of course, now the warning is out, the spies can just remove enough unnecessary components to keep the weight constant. Still, I guess it at least makes their lives more difficult.

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Re:US Government recommends weighing laptop before and after... by nearestneighbor on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @03:58PM (#826688)

Here's an explanation:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistahardwa...

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