Originally Posted by
Dieuwer
Serious profiling, or the Israeli method, would make all these bans unnecessary. You really think a granny from upstate NY bringing her camera on board to snap pix of the grandkids is a threat??
The voodoo "security" of profiling is just more dog and pony show in the main and does nothing to detect explosives and thereby interdict contraband explosives.
The failed shoe-bomber was cleared to fly LY more than once, and he flew out of TLV more than once. The failed underwear bomber was cleared by dual-Israeli citizen working at AMS at the time using "the Israeli method".
Also, the risk of IEDs masked by electronics does include that the person transporting the bomb may be unaware that they are transporting a bomb on their own flight.
Originally Posted by
Dieuwer
Additionally: if you can hide a bomb in an iPad, you can hide it an a phone. Makes no sense to ban only electronics smaller than phones.
The battery sizes aren't all the same for an iOS phone as for an iOS tablet. Guess which one is more likely to have a bigger battery.