rMBP and TSA security?

[andymac2210]

I travel 2 times a week from SFO to the east coast and I don't feel anything wrong at all. TSA agents are there to do their job and their job is making the airport and YOUR flight more secure. Only the people who travel 1 time a year think 2 minutes of taking out a laptop is a waste of their time. The rest get through security check point without any problems.

They're control freaks looking for stuff that's as rare as a unicorn under every attractive white girls blouse.

If a terrorist REALLY wanted to get a bomb on a plane there's a thousand ways they could get round the TSA, most of whom have an IQ of about 90.
They're there to harass YOU.

 

[tengtengvn]

I see. Sounds like a first world problem to me.

 

[NovemberWhiskey]

The TSA can make you take nearly anything out to inspect, including ipads. The standard treatment for laptops is that they have to be out and in bins.

However, I have been using a "TSA-friendly" butterfly backpack which lays out flat for the X-ray machine. I've never been asked to remove my laptop from the bag as long as I unfolded it so nothing else was on top of the laptop.

I would recommend that if you travel a lot.

 

[andymac2210]

I see. Sounds like a first world problem to me.

Tyranny is usually a problem all over the world.

You go ahead and enjoy your wife getting a proctology exam to find a WMD though and keep making jokes about it.

 

[tengtengvn]

You are just over reacting. Watching too much FoxNews, perhaps?
Try to be an ass when you are at an airport oversea then you'll know what real tyranny is. Hopefully they'll give you the rectal exam that you've asked for.

 

[andymac2210]

You are just over reacting. Watching too much FoxNews, perhaps?
Try to be an ass when you are at an airport oversea then you'll know what real tyranny is. Hopefully they'll give you the rectal exam that you've asked for.

Fox news only seems to promote this sort of thing.

 

[makaveli559m]

TSA is a joke. Ever traveled with a firearm (checked)? Its a nightmare, but completely legal (ammo isn't) and they act like you walk in there and its WW3.


Its a laptop though.

I talked to some guy on eBay that was selling a MacBook Pro on eBay because a TSA agent dropped it, why he didn't complain to TSA when an agent dropped his MacBook Pro. This is what he told me, he said that TSA wouldn't pay for any damages because he couldn't prove that the laptop was in working condition prior to the agent dropping it on the ground while still in a storage case :|

 

[rdav]

Protecting Data (on LapTop) when Travelling.

What about the private contents of your laptop? Now that the Federal Courts have decided that the authorities can freely access all your data, anywhere within 100 miles of a US border, with no warrant & no explanation, and/or copy all your drives, and then provide it all to other government agencies (of several countries). Os-X FileVault is not much use if you are obligated to give up all of your passwords. (Or be incarcerated should you forget them). Same with 1Password, Knox etc. Suggestions?

 

[thundersteele]

What about the private contents of your laptop? Now that the Federal Courts have decided that the authorities can freely access all your data, anywhere within 100 miles of a US border, with no warrant & no explanation, and/or copy all your drives, and then provide it all to other government agencies (of several countries). Os-X FileVault is not much use if you are obligated to give up all of your passwords. (Or be incarcerated should you forget them). Same with 1Password, Knox etc. Suggestions?

Well, keep your sensitive data in the cloud or on a private server at home, without copies on the laptop. Or don't get anywhere near a border

I've never had anyone look at my laptop, and I've entered the US and left quite a few times in the last years.

 

[old-wiz]

I am just asking if the TSA is in any way reasonable, .

TSA + reasonable is an oxymoron.

The TSA is no way reasonable. At the rate they are going we will have to strip down completely before we can go through security

 

[yjchua95]

There are bags with TSA friendly laptop compartments, which let you leave the bag in its own pocket and go through security, I have a T-Pass backback by Tumi (below) with this feature and when traveled earlier this year did not had to remove it from the bag, but raher open the exterior zipper as shown in the second picture.

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By the way I also have a Tumi T-Pass. As long as I don't remove the T-Pass tag on it, then I can just leave my MacBook in the laptop compartment right?

And also, can I put my 13" MBA and 15" rMBP in the laptop compartment as well? I always travel with two just in case one breaks down.