Re: Portable hard drive through airport security?


"Bucky" <uw_badgers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mar 25, 6:02 pm, BubbaGump <BubbaGump@localhost> wrote:
I'm not worried about the metal detector. What I'm wondering is if
security will let the item through.

don't worry, I have taken usb flash drives dozens of times, never a
problem.

don't anyone say
not to store passwords on a portable drive because I use a different
one for each account, for security, and I have way too many too
remember them all.

that's fine, but you might want to encrypt the file (easy if it's a
Word or Excel doc) so that if you do lose the usb flash drive, it
won't be trivial for the finder to open the file.

Actually it is almost trivial to open an encrypted Word or Excel file if you
encrypt using the built-in MS system. There are plenty of programs which
will open these files. I once used one to open a file in the office where
someone had forgotten the password, but I forget which one I used.

Examples:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=open+encrypted+word+excel+files&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

I often carry a portable hard disk drive through security (international in
UK, SE Asia, Australia) - never had a problem.



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