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TSA To Allow Laptops In Approved Bags

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the security-theater dept.

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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  1. So little? by cyclobotomy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So little of what the TSA is doing is any more than illusion.

    ...so then most of what they are doing is actually worth-while security?

  2. Re:I don't think that sneaking stuff through is sm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As someone who rarely flies, and then only for business, I fail to see the downside to "improving" security by greatly annoying customers and therefore cutting down on the number of passengers per plane. Maybe then they can start adding room between all seats.

    In fact, there should be a new restriction saying that anyone weighing over, say, 250 lbs is automatically selected for "secondary screening". 'Cause they might be a drug mule in a fat suit, or something.

    At least once you're through security, you're through and it's over. When you're sat next to Mr. World Champ Couch-Potato on a flight, you're stuck having no armrest for the entire flight.

  3. Alternative by stewbacca · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...or I could just take 5 seconds to take my laptop out of my bag?