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Subject:Re: For Writers Who Travel with Laptops From:Gwen Barnes <gwen -dot- barnes -at- MUSTANG -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:07:40 GMT
-> Security at any airport will gladly hold the laptop for you (I qualify by
-> saying "at least in the US") while you go through the metal detector. They
The value of a stolen laptop pales, in some cases, in comparison with
the value of the information on it. Laptop theft is a popular method of
industrial espionage. If your company would suffer should the
information on your laptop become available to its competitors, you need
to be extremely conscious of
