[ale] Linux alternative recommendation ?

[Courtney Thomas]

Keith,

Thanks for the references.

After reading I have no idea how safe my digital media are, as in some 
cases I don't know if what I'm using is comparable
to what was tested and further,... I don't know how comparable the 
equipment used to scan is to what would be encountered
at particular airports, especially, say, on entering Canada, for example.

In my case, the TSA needlessly destroyed, while I watched, and entirely 
unnecessarily, new luggage and didn't even feign caring.
I can imagine their knowledge and handling of valuable data :-)  not to 
mention the cost to replicate same. They also have the
power, as opposed to the right, to seize such, including computers, 
without accountability. I guess I just resolved my concern.
The greater threat is a police state vis-a-vis it's misuse/abuse of 
techno surveillance. Answer: don't leave home without it,.....
it being duplication of all before encountering fortress America's 
minions. The good news....scanners are the least of my worries.

Not complaining, but hopefully explaining, and... rather confessing 
ignorance and frustration with attempting to resolve this matter, for as 
we all know, a
helluva lot of time and work can be nullified with one thoughtless move, 
on "their", or, my part.

C.Thomas



On 10/25/2011 8:37 AM, Watson, Keith wrote:
> As Jim pointed out they can but it does depend on the energy level of the xrays.
>
> As a result the manufacturers say sometimes xrays damage flash and sometimes they don't so it is best to treat them like photographic film to be safe.
>
> Read:
>
> 5: Pack Flash storage devices into carry-on luggage if possible
> 6: Avoid U.S. Postal Service radiation scanning of mailed packages
>
> http://www.kingston.com/flash/digitalmedia_care.asp
>
>
> You can get the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A) Integrity in Transportation of Imaging Products (ITIP) report here:
> http://www.i3a.org/resources/#itip
>
>
> keith
>
> --
>
> Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
> IT Support professional Lead           College of Computing
> keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
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>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
>> Kinney
>> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 23:23
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Linux alternative recommendation ?
>>
>> I haven't directly studied xray damage to flash media but xrays do cause
>> damage/change to nearly every material that they encounter. By ionizing
>> both valence band and deeper electron shells, the materials are forced by
>> their chemistey and lattice structures to rearrange after an ionization
>> occurs. Theoretically, this physio-chemical change will destroy the stored
>> charge in the region of the disruption. I expect the requisite cross
>> sectional absorption rate would need to be high as the data charge is not
>> contained within a aungle lattice cwll but across many adjacent ones.
>> However,  ionized lattice relaxtion is very much an adjacent cell process
>> as the unstable charges migrate to dissapate their high potential. So I
>> would count xrays as a valid way to destroy data on a thumb drive or and
>> media for that matter.
>>
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