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Originally Posted by cmdahler
You know, that almost has to be a pure coincidence, since the machines that are used as airport screening devices use X-rays, which aren't anywhere near energetic enough to damage things like hardware electronics, much less even fog typical camera film. Unless Stansted is using some kind of new screening device with a different sort of technology, the typical X-ray scanner doesn't have any kind of strong magnets in it, but even if it did, it wouldn't be likely to damage electronic gadgetry like an e-book, or everyone putting a laptop through it would have their drives wiped.
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The minor difference is that an eInk screen works via charged capsules, so in theory a magnetic field could screw them up more than something like a laptop's LCD screen. Still, I wouldn't expect it to be permanent even if the magnet was strong enough to have any effect (which I would also not expect). Definitely sounds strange.