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And then what? Is someone going to hijack a plane by setting their laptop battery on fire?

• sokoloff 4y ago
  Suicide 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 ago
    Do you have a link where a terrorist exploded a battery on a plane? I've never heard of that before.
    • sokoloff 4y ago
      No; 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 ago
  Yes. 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 ago
    inflammable 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 ago
      Inflammable and flammable are very close synonyms. Non-flammable is the antonym.
      • CyberDildonics 4y ago
        Non-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.