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5d41402abc4b | 1 month ago

Can this X Ray bit flip memory or damage NAND?

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wiredfool|1 month ago

It's a specific liquid scanner that's done on bottles that have been pulled aside for extra scanning (at least, that's what Frankfurt was doing a couple weeks ago)

vidarh|1 month ago

As far as I know, it's not. You're now specifically told to not take liquid out of your luggage.

At least that was the situation when I flew out of London Gatwick last time - they had people going up and down before the scanners admonishing people to leave everything in their bags to avoid delay.

marcosdumay|1 month ago

The bar for damaging memory is way higher than normal X rays.

Flipping bits is more fuzzy. In theory anything can flip bits in working memory.

ErroneousBosh|1 month ago

It can erase EPROMs, so don't send your vintage computers through an X-ray machine.