"Do not be alarmed by gunshots because the Israeli security needs to blow up suspicious passenger luggage" were the lines that Lilly Sussman heard in the sound system of the airport when traveling to Tel Aviv, in Israel, with the security officers considering her suspicious. She was questioned just like a quiz participant, and you can (please do, actually) read it on her blog.

Soon after that, she came to find out that her MacBook was completely destroyed, well, not completely, but shot with three bullets through. This can only make me wonder why. Just because some narrow-minded security officer in some airport thinks you're suspicious, he can step with both his dumb combat boots over the line of human right? Lilly's story is really disturbing, and I don't mean the way she wrote it, but merely the fact that some oblivious people shot her laptop without even asking for a password or something and just did what they thought "best."

I don't even want to get started with the "what if" questions, but I really have to in this case. What if they had hit her hard drive (which they didn't) and that's where she had important business work? Sure, you will jump easily with the back-up yelling and ask why she didn't keep a back-up. Tell you this - if you currently have back-up of your work that you have on your laptop, please take it to an airport and have it shot. Seems fair, doesn't it?

Even now, after reading her blog entry many times, I cannot believe that can still happen in the 21st century, my friends. It is purely unbelievable that some non-educated security mugs have the right to search one's personal diaries, unpack hygiene items, question personal pictures in somebody's digital camera and other things like that. I will keep up with her blog just to see what happens with the Neanderthals that were dressed as security officers.


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