Originally Posted by
whirledtraveler
...couldn't do with a 15" laptop.
Laptops don't have the ability to shatter airliner windows, TSA thinks. Of course, the emergency automotive glass-breaking carbide-tipped baton disguised as a laser pointer would be the terrorist's choice, but Mythbusters debunked that idea. You can't bring down a plane by breaking one window out.
When will they figure it out - it's the wielder who's the danger, not what they carry?