Kill them? That's ridiculous!
They might ask you to boot it up, they might check for explosive residue
with a swab of cloth, they might even (I haven't seen this, seems like an
urban legend) plug a device into a USB port to see if it has power; they
won't kill it or load a virus into your machine. All of these assumptions
are based on the premise that you aren't going to 'the Matrix.'
geotek


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curious wrote in message
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I've seen people who try to take their laptops onto a plane as carry-on
get
stopped by security at the gate. The security guard asks them to boot
up
the
laptop, and then they insert some sort of device into the laptop
(presumably
into the USB port or something). What exactly does this device do, and
is
there a possibility of a virus being transmitted from the device into
the
computer?


No virus, since it is not allowed to bring them into some countries.
So probably they kill them all before take-off.

Ron