Begin forwarded message: From: Benjamin Kuipers <kuipers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: August 10, 2006 6:01:10 PM EDT To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [IP] results of uk banFrom reading the restrictive lists, it appears that you can't even carry on a book to read, or a notebook to write in.
This amounts to being sentenced to spend a trans-Atlantic flight watching television or movies, or listening to the airlines' choice of listening matter. Shades of "1984", where each citizen is required to own a television set, which it is illegal to turn off!
Ben At 3:26 PM -0400 8/10/06, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Dan Gillmor <dan@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: August 10, 2006 2:24:29 PM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [IP] Digest 1.1101 for ipLaptops coming out of Heathrow are going into luggage you're forbidden tolock in the first place. Then your luggage in the hands of poorly paidairline employees (many of whose wages have been cut by 25-50 percent in the past few years) and government workers (some of whom may also be interested in what's on your hard disks). Phones and other handhelds, not to mentionvarious kinds of valuables no longer allowed in carry-on bags, will be especially prone to pilfering.A lot of folks coming to the U.S. will be inclined not to fly via London if this system stays in place, and not fly, period, if it spreads to other airports. It's hard to imagine much business travel surviving in such anenvironment.In the UK, they've banned people from taking electronic equipment on planes: that means laptop computers, mobile phones, and iPods among other items.
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