Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Let's see how DHS/TSA exploits the terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester last night. Quite clearly, terrorist attacks in and from the UK are possible too, so it's not like a geographic-limited ban makes any sense, so the push to expand it will only increase.
A better question is why the US authorities continue to obsess over complicated and unlikely electronics plots against aircraft, when events like this (and too many others in recent years) show that there are far easier, cheaper, reliable ways to create devastation. Whatever technology was used in Manchester, it didn't have to fool ETD and X-ray, nor did the perpetrator have to get a passport, ticket or pass preflight background checks.