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I was looking up for some information about travel warnings to Israel and landed up on Lily’s blog here. This is when i learnt what happened with Lily, who lives in Egypt during her recent trip to Tel Aviv.

For some reason, the security officials felt that Lily is a threat to security and BLEW UP HER LAPTOP. From her blog, this is what she says

Then they asked me to wait. Since they had asked for friends and families phone numbers I assumed they might be calling to verify my answers to questions or confirm I really had extended family in Tel Aviv. An announcement played over the sound system, interrupting my break in the sunshine. First in Hebrew, then Arabic, then in English. It was something along the lines of, ” do not to be alarmed by gunshots because the Israeli security needs to blow up suspicious passanger luggage.”

I went inside to check on my bag. I had left it unattended, where they instructed. It was still there so I went back outside.

Moments later a man came outside and introduced himself as the manager on duty. And then, “I’m sorry but we had to blow up your laptop. “

What….all my client case notes and testimony, writing, pictures, music and applications. Years of work. NO!!!! What?? Are you insane?? What were you thinking? THAT’S ALL MY WORK!?

Not sure if you can get your blown up laptop re-imbursed ( which i believe you can) but one thing is for sure, you must have a backup of your data before you travel to Israel and just in case, land up in a situation like Lily. Interestingly, for Lily, her Hard disk missed the bullets.

When it comes to backing up your important data, you can either use the in-built backup utility of Windows (read: [How-To] Automating data backup in Windows) or you can even go for Backup4All which helps in taking backups of your data with ease (read: Backup4All helps you take your Backups with ease). You can even try out Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager (read: [USB] Backup and Restore Data with Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager)

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