Japan's major airlines to toughen explosive checks from Tuesday

It's a simple surface wipe and scan, takes less than a minute. SOP in many airports, certainly does not read the data.

In other words, copy everybody's data.

Macs can be set to encrypt the entire hard drive. Copying it isn't going to do much for them.

In fact New Chitose airport doesn't have any direct flights to the USA. So you can put your swipes away!

Haha... and this would have stopped that guy who flew into Haneda twice last year from S Korea carrying a large bag of gunpowder each time in order to try and blow up Yasukuni?

Paranoia aside, do you realize how fast the data transfer rate would have to be in order to copy your data with a simple swipe? It's not going to happen. Relax.

It still amazes me that people are so paranoid about privacy that they'd rather have a higher chance of being killed by a terrorist. I for one value my life enough that I don't really care even if they were somehow miraculously able to magically scan my company's secrets or photos of my family.

In other words, copy everybody's data.