Dearest All,
Please be advised that all Airports in Saudi Arabia have a new rule regarding leaving and arriving overseas workers carrying electronic devices. This has not been published to the public, but please advice all our workers who are traveling to K.S.A.
- All electronic devices will be submitted for check up before immigration section. Devices include cellular phones with camera and memory card, flash disks, external hard drive, laptops/notebooks/PCs, mp3 players.
- A special USB device will be inserted to the electonic devices that you are carrying. This special device can scan all videos and pictures (.jpg, .bmp, .png, .gif, .tiff, .avi, .wmv, .3gp, .mp4, etcetera) and all contents of your laptop/cellphone, and will be recorded to their main computer.
- All devices with nude/naked pictures/videos in it will be confiscated immediately. There will be no fines, and refusal will send you to jail and deportation and black listed to K.S.A.
- Laptops with pirated softwares and videos 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 laptap of one of my friend, a Sony Viao, which cost around 8T SR, was confiscated a few days ago, because of 1 semi nude picture that he forgot to erase.
Thank you.
There are two things that bothered me:
- A Filipino is behind all of this. I mean a kabayan (of all the races working in this kingdom) should know that the only avenue wherein we can watch movies here in the comforts of our own home is through downloading torrents of it!
- I have porn in my notebook. I believe everyone has porn in their PCs, may it be soft or hardcore, they do exist somewhere in the recesses of your hard drive, even those which people believe is not porn. Admit it, we're just human beings filled with carnal desires. Therefore, I won't go out of the kingdom with my notebook or external storage devices nor will I bring one filled with a refined version of 2girls1cup when I return here from vacay. It's too risky.
I'm still bothered that a Pinoy made that stupid contraption. Or maybe, they're just telling us it's a Filipino who is to blame for this catastrophe.
I feel like I'm in the Middle Eastern edition of Punk'd? I mean, Arabic Ashton Kutcher or whatever, I know you're out there somewhere! C'mon, I know we're on Punk'd the Arabian version!
