My seedqr backup, which I paid a good amount for gets seized by airport security. I hate airport security. > To be clear it was blank and didn't have my seed phrase on it. I got this a month ago in Prague and it's my first time going through airport security with it. The device is a bunch of washers for each word of the seed phrase, some striking pins with all letters of the alphabet and a cylinder that holds the washers. They confiscated all of it.
They gave me the option of checking it, but that would cost me almost as much as the device did not to mention the enormous hassle of going back out to the checkin, so I just let them have it.
Not happy with these people at Paris CDG. Rent seekers...
maybe shouldn't bring these things to the airport in the first place.
Doesn't excuse fascist pseudo-police (airport security think themselves law enforcement, which they absolutely aren't) confiscating willy-nilly what they're too dumb to understand.
And Jimmy apparently too lazy to push back and stand for his rights.
I think the best is avoiding these problems even happening in the first place, which you shouldn't bringing these things into the airport at all ( anything related to seeds )
probably.
Yes and use brain 🧠wallet
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Jimmy should know better
Just to shed a little light on this, the airport security didn't explain very much and they didn't speak much English. The guy told me to speak to his "manager" who basically told me I can't bring that on a plane. It was also a SeedOr, not SeedQR, btw, and it's a metal backup device for your seedphrase, made in Germany. I bought it at the Prague conference wanting to bring it home to play with it because I hadn't seen one like that before. I really like the design.
The bureaucrats really give you very little choice and I wasn't going to miss my flight, so I ended up letting it go.
Thankfully, the SeedOr guys are going to send me some to my US address so I don't have to deal with this in the future.
I'm sorry but under what stupid pretense was it confiscated?
He’s doesn’t explained why
Other people on the thread suggested that security might have thought it would be some kind of club-like tool.
I just had a butter knife confiscated at an airport security. Butter knife, no edge, no point, a regular butter knife. And it was right as I was rushing to get to a next flight, I didn't try to protest. It really pissed me off.
I've had small size swiss army knives get through lots of times, and also get confiscated a couple times.
If something is iffy, I find it's best for it to have a confusing, non-knife like shape. Like for instance - folding scissors. I've always had these go through, even though it's just as dangerous (if you wanted it to be) as any knife with a 2 inch blade, but the knife will definitely be confiscated, and so far the scissors have been okay.
This lack of consistency only shows that these security controls have little to do with actually ensuring security of the flight.
This is a mechanism of scaring people into obedience. So that they feel like criminals when passing through.
It's not clear to me what was confiscated... just the metal template for seedqr?
If so, that's probably because of the "sharp edge"?
https://transport.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2016-09/info_travellers_hand_luggage.pdf
You can bring "sharp edges" in. I have a credit-card-sized toolkit that includes a knife that is maybe an inch long and I got it in hand luggage multiple times. The regulations specify a minimum blade length.
And he mentioned washers for stamping words on them, not a big metal plate.
Not all airport security is the same, it might also be the guy's first day on the job.
All the more reason to push back. Security standards should be the same, otherwise what sort of security is it?
Poor OpSEC.
Hard luck Jimmy.
Good use case for Border Wallets
https://www.borderwallets.com/
Good job TSA (or whatever they’re called in Paris)
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That is why you use your brain.
Either memorize it or write it down as before you go through.