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Pre 9/11 to now for air travel is the difference between day and night. It's not even close. This pretend, fake security we have today imposes so many burdens a
by IncRnd 4y ago
Pre 9/11 to now for air travel is the difference between day and night. It's not even close. This pretend, fake security we have today imposes so many burdens and costs on people who wish to travel. The least suspicious would easily think that the changes were meant to federalize a big portion of many people's lives.
- eastbound 4y agoPlus they’re not banning mobile phones or computers, and the best way to get something on fire is to shortcut a Li-ion battery - how much energy does a macbook contain.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoHow many laptops or phones have exploded on planes?
- sokoloff 4y agoI think you might be mis-reading the GP's point. It's not that it's a common occurrence for laptops to spontaneously combust, but rather than an adversary could intentionally cause one (or several) to do so.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoAnd then what? Is someone going to hijack a plane by setting their laptop battery on fire?
- sokoloff 4y agoSuicide bombers have downed planes before. Bombs have been left in the cabin to go off on the next segment. It’s not every terrorist's goal to walk away from their event.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoDo you have a link where a terrorist exploded a battery on a plane? I've never heard of that before.
- sokoloff 4y agoNo; no one here claimed that it had been done, only that it's a potential threat. No one’s downed an airliner with a two-part liquid bomb either, but you’re still dumping your water and soft drinks at security.
- eastbound 4y agoYes. Wrap it in some inflammable scarf/coat to get it going. Or find an Android vulnerability and make several phones burn at the same time. Anyway, it’s no more a risk than guns or water on planes since it hasn’t happened yet; but among this security circus, it’s hypocritical to ban water and not li-ion batteries.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoinflammable scarf/coat I think you mean flammable. find an Android vulnerability and make several phones burn at the same time I don't think that exists.
- sokoloff 4y agoInflammable and flammable are very close synonyms. Non-flammable is the antonym.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoNon-flammable is the antonym That doesn't matter here. Clothes might be flammable, but are not volatile enough to be labeled inflammable.
- IncRnd 4y ago> I think you mean flammable. Inflammable and flammable are both adjectives that mean "easily set on fire". They have slightly different etymologies. In the case of inflammable, in- means "into" and is not a negation.