“Airport X-Ray Machines Can Wipe Your Phone or Laptop’s Memory”
Despite the multitude of travelers who go through airport security every day with their phones and laptops neatly packed within those little X-Ray bins for examination, a whopping 31 percent of those surveyed by HighSpeedInternet.com said they believe it’s true that airport X-ray machines can wipe the memory on their phone or laptop.
Luckily for them, it’s not true..
While X-rays are capable of “wiping” things like the images from old-school rolls of 35 mm film, they’re not able to wipe digital content like the photos and files stored on your hard drive. You’d need a very strong neodymium magnet to do that.