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Re: Israel airport security stole my laptop

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Post by rv-de »

I suspect they intentionally regularly interrogate people who they know are innocent to train what a normal false positive acts like. that helps detect the true positives in contrast while training on true positives is difficult as they are quite rare. the interrogation strategy is just to impose a high level of stress on someone. i suspect a false positive will act very confused in contrast to someone who wants to hide something.

(with positive I refer to someone who is considered dangerous or an enemy)

having said that I went twice to Israel from Germany and coming back from Istanbul and never had issues. actually I find it quite exciting to experience the perfectly orchestrated security measures. obviously though also because I never got the tough treatment so far.

Re: Israel airport security stole my laptop

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Post by mimi89999 »

pintxo wrote: post #71
kkapelon wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I was boarding a plane to fly into TLV from Athens I think you mean the other way around. If you are being asked all these questions the flight was from TLV to Athens. Right?

Israel has people on the ground around the world. Hard learned lesson after too many hijacked planes.

This wasn't an ElAl flight, so I don't understand why they care.

Re: Israel airport security stole my laptop

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Post by boltzmannbrain »

opless wrote: post #6

This is a good argument for never taking any electronic devices outside your home region. Even if you get your device back, after someone takes it behind the curtain and fiddles with it ... How can you be sure that they have not compromised it for its onward journey?

Agreed. Lesson learned.

As recommended elsewhere in these comments, I'll likely use Chromebook + https://www.paperspace.com/ in the future, and implement a travel policy for my team regarding what material can be taken where.

Re: Israel airport security stole my laptop

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Post by nyolfen »

isostatic wrote: post #88
nyolfen wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if getting shaken down is part of the risk of flying through israel then it’s a public good to let others to know. this reflexive defensive crap is par for the course i suppose.

And in the U.S. > A few months earlier in the same airport, a tech engineer returning from a business trip to London objected when a federal agent asked him to type his password into his laptop computer. "This laptop doesn't belong to me," he remembers protesting. "It belongs to my company." Eventually, he agreed to log on and stood by as the officer copied the Web sites he had visited, said the engineer, a U.S. citi…

so competent that they steal a developer's laptop, apparently!

Re: Israel airport security stole my laptop

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Post by qazqwert »

it's not rare in israel becuse they do have a very big terror problem...

but the missing laptop is unusual and... mybe you'v had some iligal shit/... cracked software/... idk -or mybe it was just a mistake/missplacment have you asked about the laptop?

btw this is a nice video i'll suggest you'd watch regarding israels airport security and oparetion... https://youtu.be/1Y1kJpHBn50

Re: Israel airport security stole my laptop

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Post by londons_explore »

Cyphase wrote: post #40
DanBC wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your device has been out of your site, under the control of a well-funded government agency, and you believe that agency to be hostile then the device is compromised and the only thin you can do with it is sell it on to someone else or destroy it.

For Sale: Acme XYZ123 laptop with . Confiscated and returned by Israeli airport security. Great buy for counterintelligence agents or someone looking for a target for hardware compromise detection practice.* * The security of the laptop, electronic devices in its vicinity, or the purchaser is not guaranteed.

I wonder if selling it on eBay with that description would increase or decrease its value.

Re: Israel airport security stole my laptop

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Post by londons_explore »

fmajid wrote: post #90
desireco42 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know, you always think it is something it happens to other people. Chromebook FTW

Chromebooks won't work in China, where the Great Firewall blocks most Western cloud services.

They still work fine

Re: Israel airport security stole my laptop

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Post by isostatic »

nyolfen wrote: post #95
isostatic wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And in the U.S. > A few months earlier in the same airport, a tech engineer returning from a business trip to London objected when a federal agent asked him to type his password into his laptop computer. "This laptop doesn't belong to me," he remembers protesting. "It belongs to my company." Eventually, he agreed to log on and stood by as the officer copied the Web sites he had visited, said the engineer, a U.S. citi…

so competent that they steal a developer's laptop, apparently!

They confiscated a laptop for some reason that the OP didn't report (and perhaps didn't know)

Re: Israel airport security stole my laptop

#100

Post by WhooisWhoo »

Some time ago, made a small selection from the most interesting tips posted in the media about crossing international borders with electronic devices

> https://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=6918

> https://www.wired.com/2017/02/guide-getting-past-customs-dig...

> https://privacysos.org/blog/social-media-privacy-at-the-bord...

> https://techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm

> https://backchannel.com/what-to-do-if-the-laptop-ban-goes-gl...

> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/14/reg_guide_to_data_s...

> https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017

> https://seattleprivacy.org/securing-my-data-for-internationa...

and the best laptop for travelling

> The best laptop for traveling is one you can afford to lose

> That’s why the best travel laptop is the one I don't have to care too much about. It's the one I’m not afraid to lose or break. Because when I’m traveling—especially when I’m on vacation—I'm trying to minimize worrying. About anything

> https://www.gq.com/story/best-laptop-for-traveling

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