From: Ortega, Lemoure Jeffrey M <lemourejeffrey.ortega@...>
Subject: NEW RULE IN SAUDI ARABIA
To: "tigershark_421@..." <tigershark_421@...>
Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 6:49 PM

 

Dearest All,

Please be advised that all Airports in Saudi Arabia has a new rule regarding “arriving overseas workers carrying electronic devices.”  This has not been published to the public, but please advice all our workers who will be traveling to work here.

 

All electronic devices will be submitted for check up before immigration section.

• Devices includes Cellular phones with camera and memory cards, flash drives (USB, external hard drives, laptops/notebooks/personal computers, i-pods, i-touch, mp3 players with memory cards.
• A special USB device will be inserted to the electronic devices that you are carrying. This special device can scan all videos and pictures in jpg, bmp, avi, mpeg and other  formats in your laptop/cellular phones, and will it be recorded to their main computer.
• All devices with nude pictures in it will be confiscated immediately.  There will be no fines, and refusal will send you to jail and deportation.
• Laptops with pirated softwares will also be confiscated.

This rule has been applied already and is being practice in Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah Airports.  This is excluding Bahrain airport.

FYI, the special device was invented by a Filipino.

Kindly include this in your orientation with the workers and tell them not to bring any pirated softwares, movies, or nude pictures.  Even datas that are hidden can be found by this device, so tell them not to bring any at all.  The laptop of one of my friend, a Sony Viao, which cost around SR8,000.00 was confiscated a few weeks ago which was found having x-rated video that he forgot to erase.

 

In case you have erased these types of files, double-check the recycle bin because deleted files will still remain there unless you will empty the recycle bin.

Thank you.

 

 

 

 

Best regards,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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