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But TSA won't reziptie it for you, so it seems worse in that respect if you're dealing with shady airports

• dredmorbius 10y ago
  Some security works by defeating access. Some by evidencing it. Seals and zipties help evidence access, though not perfectly as the many references to ballpoint defeats of zippers on this article show.
  • ChuckMcM 10y ago
    That's why I always have a highly encrypted flash chip hidden in a false compartment of my checked luggage[1]. Really easy to know if they went through my luggage :-) [1] Not actually true, but I did bring home a set of lock picks from a conference once that had been wrapped as a gift, and they had been unwrapped by "somebody" (and no, there wasn't the TSA leaflet in my bag)
    • arviewer 10y ago
      This is probably just for fun!
    • ProZsolt 10y ago
      I prefer hiding an usb killer. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/usb-killer-flash-drive-can-fry-your-computers-innards-in-seconds/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/usb-killer-flash-dri...
• jlgaddis 10y ago
  It serves the purpose of notifying you that TSA went through your luggage, as eridius pointed out.
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  • slededit 10y ago
    They leave a card for you anyways. If it were something more targeted and covert I'm sure they kind find a replacement ziptie. Even if it took extra time they could have temporarily "lost" it.
    • cortesoft 10y ago
      Or they could just use a ballpoint pin to open the zipper, as another commenter on here pointed out.
• riboflava 10y ago
  Solution: lock + ziptie/other mechanism that lets you know the suitcase was opened.
• arviewer 10y ago
  Then use both!