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From: "A. Gunder Frank" <agfrank@epas.utoronto.ca>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:36:03 -0400
To: Paulo Frank <pfrank@iprolink.ch>
Nancy Howell <howell@epas.utoronto.ca>,
Barry Wellman <wellman@epas.utoronto.ca>,
Shree Mulay <MULAY@RVHRI.Lan.McGill.CA>,
Chris Chase-Dunn <CHRISCD@jhu.edu>,
Martha Gimenez <gimenez@spot.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: H-ASIA: Travel Alert re: Computer Theft (fwd)
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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:05:34 +0200
From: Paulo Frank <pfrank@iprolink.ch>
To: "A. Gunder Frank" <agfrank@epas.utoronto.ca>,
Nancy Howell <howell@epas.utoronto.ca>,
miguel frank <100412.1015@compuserve.com>
Subject: H-ASIA: Travel Alert re: Computer Theft
>From: Frank Conlon <conlon@u.washington.edu>
>Subject: H-ASIA: Travel Alert re: Computer Theft
>Status:
>
> H-ASIA
> April 24, 1996
>
>Travel Alert: Computer Theft at airports
>Ed. note: Not all H-ASIA subscribers have the luxury of laptop computers
>to take on research trips, but the following item should provide a
>cautionary note, as well as a reminder that the more things you have, the
>more things you have to worry about. F.F.C.
>**************************************************************************
>From: David Hodge <hodge@u.washington.edu>
>
>The busy conference and vacation season will soon be upon us, so I thought
>you might be interested in the following alert from the FAA, forwarded to
>the Lexington office today:
>
>The FAA recently learned of a hustle that's being employed at airports all
>across the country to steal laptop computers. It involves two persons who
>look for a victim carrying a laptop and approaching a metal detector.
>They position themselves in front of the unsuspecting passenger. They
>stall until the mark puts the laptop computer on the conveyor belt. Then
>the first subject moves through the metal detector easily. The second
>subject sets off the detector and begins a slow process of emptying
>pockets, removing jewelry, etc. While this is happening, the first
>subject takes the laptop as soon as it appears on the conveyor belt and
>moves away quickly.
>
>When the passenger finally gets through the metal detector, the laptop is
>gone. The subject that picks it up heads into the gate area and disappears
>among the crowd. Sometimes a third subject will take a hand-off from the
>first subject and the computer is out of the restricted area before the
>mark even knows that it is gone.
>
>This is becoming a widely practiced problem and is happening at airports
>everywhere. When traveling with a laptop computer, try to avoid lines
>to enter a metal detector when possible. When you can't do that, delay
>putting your luggage and laptop on the conveyor belt until you are sure
>that you will be the next person through the metal detector. As you
>move through the metal detector, keep you eyes on the conveyor belt and
>watch for your luggage and laptop to come through as well as watching
>for what those in front of you are picking up.
>
>
>SOURCE:
>U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
>
>Captain Terry Bowman
>Chief, Technology Integration
>Secretary of the Air Force
>Office of Public Affairs
>
>(703) 695-8561
>
>
> Robert A. Harrell Phone: 404 294-3490
> Director of Media Services FAX: 404 294-3492
> DeKalb College
> 555 North Indian Creek Drive Internet:
> Clarkston, GA 30021-2396 USA rharrell@DeKalb.dc.PeachNet.EDU
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>
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