Am 09.08.2011 19:48, schrieb James Hare:
On Aug 9, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Deryck Chan deryckchan@gmail.com wrote:
PS. For those of you who have yet to fly out of Israel: it's a good idea to have a password / Android lock etc. on each of your electronic devices, so that they can't check their content except in front of you.
I don't know anything about a Wikimania CD, but I do have a security related question. I brought a USB flash drive with me, since I usually keep one handy. Yet there is no way for me to plug it into my computer to verify it's a flash drive because I didn't bring a computer in the conventional sense (I brought my iPad which has no USB port, sadly). Will this be an issue?
I had a USB flash drive with me, no questions asked.
In general don't suspect too much ;-) I had the "luck" to be selected twice, after x-raying my luggage prior to check-in and at the normal security check for hand-luggage.
Both times they extremely carefully checked everything I had in my luggage, two persons with this special cloth wiping aover everything I had. It took some time (ca. 10 minutes each) but no problem at all.
They wanted me to open my computer, OLPC and mobile phone but only so they could wipe all the surfaces. They never requested anything to be switched on. I am pretty sure that they are in no way interested in any data I have with me.
I was interviewed thoroughly because I had those stamps from Jordan in my passport. Why I went there, when, how long, what I did there, where I stayed, if I knew somebody there. Answered that easily, no problem at all.
I was there 2 hours prior to my flight (flight was at 11:55, I arrived at 9:45 but had to take the shuttle to Terminal 1, so I arrived there at 10:00) and still had more than 30 minutes left - even though I needed two shuttles between Terminal 1 and 3 and the two sepcial interrogations.
So don't worry ;-)
/Manuel