Originally Posted by Bart

This is purely speculation, but it appears as if there are going to be very few changes to the prohibited items list even after Condition Stupid, er, I mean, Condition Orange is downgraded.

It looks like there will continue to be a ban on liquids and gels; if anything, there may probably be limits placed on quantities.

It looks like footwear removal is here to stay, regardless of the 1" standard.

My bet is that enough protests from the airline industry, businesses that rely on air travel and civil liberties groups will pressure TSA to rethink this policy. My disagreement with the birdbrains at Washington who came up with this is over the relationship between threat conditions and threat countermeasures. If there is an increased threat, you increase the threat condition and increase the threat countermeasures. However, once that threat either goes away or is reduced, then you reduce the threat condition and reduce the threat countermeasures. This is basic stuff.

But folks who are paid a whole hell of a lot more than me and are supposedly a whole hell of a lot smarter than me seem to have forgotten this very basic, very fundamental and very simple security principle.