By no means do the following ideas intend to imply that this is OK or that it's a problem that should exist, or that the victims deserve blame. Ugly-up your la

By no means do the following ideas intend to imply that this is OK or that it's a problem that should exist, or that the victims deserve blame. Ugly-up your laptop lid with stickers like a teenager. That makes it distinctive, easy to spot, just slightly less valuable, and just slightly harder to fence. Hang onto your laptop-in-a-tub until the very last possible second before you go through screening, and then insert it on the conveyor? (I've never tried this. For all I know it may work fine or it may get you detained for 17 hours and cavity-searched by over-enthusiastic fascist bureaucrats who are immune to all explanation.) Rise up en masse against our military-industrial overlords? Boycott or curtail air travel? (My personal favorite, even though it's probably playing into somebody's hands.) In case it happens anyway: Encrypt all your drives, keep daily backups, and maintain an insurance policy that covers replacement cost.