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 I advise against taking a backpack full of a dozen hardware signing devices through TSA... it looks remarkably like a bomb on the x-ray machine. 😇 
 I’ve been stopped for my signing device before - depending on the model, I’ve gone with, it’s a phone or it’s an encryption key for work. 
 Sir, that’s just my money laundering device 
 My unlicensed and unhosted money transmission device 🤣 
 It signs a cryptographic key that a number guessing computer somewhere records and then a record is stored on a database running in someone’s house. 
 how many bombs did you see on x-ray?  
 multiple phones, lap tops, headphones will get ya too. Happened to me many times. doesn't help that I keep a lock on my bag so they can't open without my permission 🤪 
 Cigars, travel size humidor with humidity meter and earphone wires were pretty rash too. Fortunately it was Cuba. They had probably seen it before.