TSA To Allow Laptops In Approved Bags

mnovotny writes "TIME is reporting that TSA will be allowing laptops in approved bags through security checkpoints. 'The new rules, announced Tuesday and set to take effect Aug. 16, are intended to help streamline the X-ray inspection lines. To qualify as "checkpoint friendly," a bag must have a designated laptop-only section that unfolds to lie flat on the X-ray machine belt and contains no metal snaps, zippers or buckles and no pockets.'" Don't you feel safer? I wish an independent 3rd-party group could get together and see what they could get through security without being arrested for the experiment. So little of what the TSA is doing is any more than illusion.

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The Inevitable Relaxation

[Palshife]

And so one of the many restrictions of post-9/11 flight security goes the way of the dodo in the name of convenience. I predict that we'll see more and more of this in the coming years. Soon, we'll not be required to X-ray our shoes when people forget why we started in the first place.

This is an illustration of how a knee-jerk reaction to tightening security instead of innovating causes us to be less secure than we were before. If we had rethought airplane security from the ground up as opposed to ramping current practices up, we might have actually learned something from 9/11 in terms of air security. As it stands, I don't think we learned very much at all.

Re:Worthless security lightened

[jackchance]

I was at the Utah airport when the TSA guy made me throw out a tube of toothpaste that had maybe 2 or 3 brushes worth of toothpaste left because when the tube was full it was over 3 Oz. I became visibly irritated and he said "talk to my supervisor"

i tried to but he just shook his head.

i looked at him and asked "when is this insanity going to end", he just shrugged.

I think a bit part of our problem is that life has become so convenient that very very few of us are willing to risk arrest by protesting.

One the things that upsets me most about this 'war on terror' is that car accidents kill many many many more people every year. Are totally random and tragic. If we spend a tiny fraction of the resources that is spend on 'security' on education and technology to prevent people falling asleep at the wheel and drunk driving we would save many many more lives.

Re:Targus lobbyist

[TheGeneration]

The Department of Homeland Security (which TSA is under) has very little actual authority.

Remember your rights, refuse to answer questions, the only answer you should EVER give a police officer, or federal agent is "I want a lawyer."

A lawyer tells us why we should never talk to cops in this video

This guy has been making a series of videos of himself at DHS checkpoint basically blowing off the Fedtards in video 1 of 11.

As Americans we have rights that we -allow- the federal and local governments to steal from us when we opt-in to their tactics. As you can see in the checkpoint video the guy did not opt-in and thereby became immune to their power and because they do not have any authority. (Hopefully you know the difference between power and authority.)