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Originally Posted by HarryT
Given the choice between trusting the judgement of the people whose job is it to assess intelligence about threats to aviation, and listening to the opinion of people on random Internet forums....
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Or you could listen to security experts like
Bruce Schneier who argue that most of the things like removing shoes, not being able to carry liquids on planes, and presumably not being able to carry electronics on planes are security theater that only makes people think that something is being done about terrorism, and in reality does nothing to make you safer. BTW, the real reason why the TSA makes people take off shoes: to decrease the number of false positives when going through metal detection.
There have already been bombs placed in checked in luggage. There has never been a liquid bomb. What ever happened to the rule that you had to turn on your electronic devices? If I didn't already have non-refundable tickets for a summer trip to Europe, I'd be looking at flying in to Canada, and changing planes there to get back in the US. Quite frankly, if any terrorists are really planning to blow up aircraft flying to the US, they'll just start somewhere other than where this restriction is enforced.
I don't really believe it, but some conspiracy theorists are already positing that the real reason for requiring electronics to be checked in is to allow national security agencies to surreptitiously copy the hard drives of people they're watching. And, if one's device goes missing, is it because it was stolen by a security agency or an airport worker?