"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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So the immigration folks always played their catch-the-smuggler card:
"That's a typewriter, is it? All right--turn it on!"

I know someone that was held by armed guards in NY while her laptop was
checked out because it set off (swabbed I guess) a plastic explosive
deector. Turns out, as she was told, that the method of manufacturing the
batteries leaves a dust residue that resembles the profile of plastique.

Si