Re: Shipping a hard drive safely

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

In article <Noou7B6w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>, Herbert Fung writes...
> 
> Hmm, looking at what I just wrote, I wonder what they would do if my Mac
> crashed and displayed the bomb icon...

    You should have set your startup sound to a loud explosion and get
the guards' reactions.  On second thought, you might have been arrested
for impersonating a bomb.  ;-)  Sort of like yelling "This is a hijack!"
when you don't really mean it.  ;-)  I wonder if these security-types
know that you can fit enough paper-wrapped C4 inside a computer case and
still be able to "turn it on to prove it isn't a bomb".  Patch the
system software so it sets off the charge when you get a fatal error...
the possibilities are endless... ;-)
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