Knives versus luggage

Posted by Jäger on 2010-02-28 18:43:53

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My objective for securing my luggage is making it a little bit harder to access, and increase the chance that someone doing something untoward would be noticed. A sufficiently-motivated attacker could easily cut my luggage open, or attack the lock with bolt-cutters, or burn through the lock with a torch, or apply rubber-hose cryptanalysis, or perform myriad other attacks, but I'm not trying to outrun the dragon here, merely outrun the hobbit.

I'll keep my passport, money, and printouts representing my airplane e-tickets securely on my person at all times, so a successful attack on my luggage would merely represent a major inconvenience, not a catastrophe.