Unlicensed softwares at Doha Airport

imran 19
By imran 19

Do they consfiscate unlicensed computer softwares at doha airport on departure, by checking all laptops and external drives.

By anonymous• 7 Sep 2009 13:06
anonymous

yES,

I know a friend working in Saudi, where laptops are scanned for indecent videos,photos,at the airport.They confiscate laptops, thats what he said.

But here in doha, they dont do that.

By arabmon• 7 Sep 2009 12:18
arabmon

maybe spot checking.....

By crapcircle• 7 Sep 2009 11:58
crapcircle

you gotta be kidding me...does any country do that? Do you realize how much time and effort it would take?

By anonymous• 7 Sep 2009 11:08
anonymous

nope...they're not skilled enough to do that :)

By pritigirl• 7 Sep 2009 10:44
pritigirl

no they don't. they won't waste time for this. scan i think is enough but as far as i'am travelling from doha everynow and then...i never exprienced that.

By mohammed bin zakin• 7 Sep 2009 10:38
mohammed bin zakin

as i am an airport service agent... we wont chk any laptops n all tht, computer scan is enough...

n even we wont hav time to chk all this...

thnx 4 the question regarding my profession.

byeee

By younus2350• 7 Sep 2009 10:37
younus2350

Hi,

Normaly no because they need hours to check every laptop or software cd at the airport.

By Zoobi• 7 Sep 2009 10:31
Zoobi

Normally they are not doing.

By fireheartin• 7 Sep 2009 10:25
fireheartin

i don't think so.. for checking all the laptops and it's data.. they need hours.

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