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That's the key to understanding this. Makes less and less sense as a security measure, maybe it makes sense as an economic measure directed at middle eastern ai
by mattnewton 10y ago
That's the key to understanding this. Makes less and less sense as a security measure, maybe it makes sense as an economic measure directed at middle eastern airlines?
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- pitt1980 10y agofwiw http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35521646 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35521646 a laptop bomb blew a hole in a Somali plane last year
- mattnewton 10y agoThat's good to know, but I don't see how this stops them doing it from other countries? Maybe it is just to make it a little bit harder to do?
- pitt1980 10y agoI don't really know, it might be a function of them having better confidence in the screening of people on watch lists in other countries or it might truly be security theater or maybe it is economically motivated the people who make these decision are working with non-public data, so its hard to know