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Old Oct 30, 2007, 11:56 am
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Originally Posted by Spiff
I know the difference between these explosives and how to detect them, neither of which the TSA seems to have any clue about. The information is freely available, too.

It's easy enough to design tests which will answer these questions. I wonder if the TSA has bothered to do that...
DHS-TSA doing tests that would stand up to independent public scrutiny would be great, but they might just prefer a DHS-FEMA-type "press conference" so no hard challenges come their way.

Fortunately there are private parties interested in sales that have reason to do demos.
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