“Like a bad dream, I am walking down Oxford Street in London, stripped bare. But this isn’t a dream, because apart from the passive RFID chip in my Oyster card I have no electronic devices on my person and am as technologically naked as the day I was born.
I am on my way to the US Embassy in Mayfair to apply for a journalist visa so that I can visit Austin, Texas in March this year as part of the team making Digital Planet for BBC World Service radio, and the appointment letter I have been sent makes it clear that such things are forbidden on the premises.
Tales abound of those refused admission for possession of an electronic car key fob or a USB stick, and a good friend and colleague was forced to jettison an expensive CompactFlash memory card – about the dumbest piece of electronics it is possible to imagine – before being admitted.”
Bill Thompson, Walking Naked into the Embassy
Via Hacker News