Originally Posted by Mats
There has never, ever been a case of commandeering an aircraft, exploding an aircraft, or anything else involving a laptop computer.
Just because there hasn't been a case of an object being used doesn't make it less dangerous.
But computers seem somehow scarier and more powerful. They are the kind of equipment unfamiliar to ageing former cops who write TSA policies.
It is actually aging Coast Guard and Navy Admirals.
Although the shoe obsession is absurd, at least it was based on an actual incident. The danger of laptops is entirely within the imagination of myopic bureaucrats at the TSA.
Confused. You call the administration of TSA myopic yet you only want items already used in the commission of a terrorist act to be looked at? I would call that myopic.