[myaccountzz]

>“Picture a technology firm moving employees from Europe to the U.S and telling the developers in those firms they can’t use laptops on airplanes,”

>Chaos

Yes total chaos I'm sure, if you can't be without your laptop for 8 hours then your company has horrible time management.

[scrollaway]

How about "you can't be without your laptop during your business travel at all"?

Who puts a laptop worth several thousands of euros in check-in luggage which gets lost, stolen and damaged all the time?

[marklyon]

You don't. You buy a $200 beater laptop and use that for travel. Load only what is necessary to remote back into your network. Don't carry any other data on it.

If it gets stolen or searched, no loss. Just buy the cheapest thing you find at an electronics store at the destination.

My old org kept a bunch of used thinkpads for this purpose. International travelers were prohibited from taking their work devices, just a loaner and a Remote Desktop client.

[scrollaway]

Hey I have this sick idea: How about we instead let passengers carry laptops on planes?

Wouldn't that be a hell of a lot simpler?

Wait, no, you're right, it's inherently dangerous. In fact, it's so dangerous, that in the past decade during which we've let people do just that, hundreds millions of people have died (Maybe some of that was old age, but we can't be sure it's not laptop-on-plane related).

Clearly something has to change.

[marklyon]

I don't get to control what the TSA does. I do get to control how I handle the problems they create.

[MereInterest]

> The wise man adapts himself to the world, while the fool tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the fool.

[wavefunction]

Sounds like a whole lot of work for me for absolutely no reason at all.

[contravariant]

According to the article the main problem isn't people that can't be without a laptop, but rather the additional risk of losing or compromising a laptop with sensitive and/or important data.

[csomar]

I rarely see any travel use his laptop during flights. (I travel economy, though). I think most travelers are worried about their laptop being damaged or stolen.

[madeofpalk]

Well, the 'chaos' they're talking about is the operational and logistical concerns airports and airlines face about how to implement such a ban and the challenges it brings.