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> But when I opened it up, a stranger’s profile greeted me. Evidently we had swapped laptops going through security. So I raced back, and returned the stranger’s laptop, and explained the situation.

A friend had this exact problem going through airport security. It ended up being a huge ordeal getting things settled.

Before hearing his story I was against putting stickers on my laptops, I felt it ruined the clean aesthetic. However, after hearing that story I always add a sticker to my laptops just to be damn sure there are no mixups like this.



So far, security has always let me leave my laptop inside a thin sleeve, I just put a sticker on the sleeve and send it through.




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