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2014-07-07 Home Front: WoT
Airports Face Chaos After America Bans UNCHARGED Mobiles Or Laptops From Us-Bound Flights Over Bomb Fears
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Posted by trailing wife 2014-07-07 10:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia 

#1 Only if ya need a cell or computer 24/7 is it a problem!
Posted by Flineck Flusock4496 2014-07-07 10:15||   2014-07-07 10:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Got to create panic to justify one's existence. Just like MMGW. Take a smidgen of info, extrapolate, and exploit. "You need us" - TSA

He who defends everything, defends nothing. So much for the 'kinder gentler' war that only continues without end rather than ruthlessly obliterate its nesting place.
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-07 11:02||   2014-07-07 11:02|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess I should be lucky I'm not traveling. My one working laptop's battery is more or less permanently dead, and I can't afford to replace it. I can't afford airline travel either, so I guess it balances out.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-07-07 11:14||   2014-07-07 11:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Things like this come from actionable intelligence gathered by other agencies.

Just guessing, but based off past experience terrorists are replacing the batteries with explosive and claiming the phones don't work and the airport security just x-rays them and sends them through. Works since the battery usually shows up as just a grey blob anyway.

The question really is, "How many terrorists will the TSA catch from this?"

Same as every other alert I bet.
Posted by DarthVader 2014-07-07 11:20||   2014-07-07 11:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't some laptops have 2 batteries?
Posted by Shipman 2014-07-07 11:50||   2014-07-07 11:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Back in '82 I had to prove my portable CD player worked before I was allowed on a plane at Logan in Boston. Big Deal.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-07-07 12:10||   2014-07-07 12:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Makes sense, if there's no power, the likely of going BOOM,is much greater.

I'd say around 70% higher.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-07-07 13:01||   2014-07-07 13:01|| Front Page Top

#8 It shouldn't take a genius to figure out how to make a replacement battery that has just enough juice to power up the laptop, with the rest filled with explosives.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-07-07 13:36||   2014-07-07 13:36|| Front Page Top

#9 The key to preventing such terrorism is early detection. After detection, the computer and owner need to be taken to a safe place and detonated in a safe manner.
Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-07 13:56||   2014-07-07 13:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Heck - when you consider that a raspberry pi is about the size of a deck of cards and can drive a display, keyboard, etc... Much much smaller than the mainboard of even a small laptop. And much smaller power requirements...
Posted by CrazyFool 2014-07-07 13:57||   2014-07-07 13:57|| Front Page Top

#11 I agree with Deacon, I remember turning on my laptop before going on a plane back before Sept 11.

Why would you bring a dead loptop carry on?
Posted by rjschwarz 2014-07-07 14:33||   2014-07-07 14:33|| Front Page Top

#12 "Why would you bring a dead laptop carry on?"
If you wore out the battery on a connecting flight?
Posted by 3dc 2014-07-07 14:42||   2014-07-07 14:42|| Front Page Top

#13 In Europe now; coming back Saturday and will provide an update of what we see if anything other than run it through the x ray.
although the Amsterdam to Hamburg connection today we did have to pull the power cords out of the bags and run them through in a tray; that was a first.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-07-07 18:50||   2014-07-07 18:50|| Front Page Top

#14 Sorry, it was back in '92. My memory is sometimes so bad I could probably organize my own surprise party.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-07-07 18:52||   2014-07-07 18:52|| Front Page Top

#15 
Posted by Flineck Flusock4496 2014-07-07 19:21||   2014-07-07 19:21|| Front Page Top

#16 Would you travel with a phone but without a charger? Hardly.
Posted by European Conservative 2014-07-07 19:27||   2014-07-07 19:27|| Front Page Top

#17 If you walk across the soutrhern border you do not have to turn on you iPhone or computer to show it works. In fact, you don't have to take off your shoes or belt or even walk through a metal detector.

Hell, you don't even need a passport or visa.

Flying is so overrated.
Posted by Jack is Back!  2014-07-07 19:31||   2014-07-07 19:31|| Front Page Top

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