U.S. airlines meet with Homeland Security on expanding laptop ban

This is not going to go down well at all and has the potential to become a giant powder keg. Millions of people depend on their mobile devices for work, people in the film industry, corporate, music industry etc. passing the time and expand on this could have a massive backlash and terrible ramifications

I've never been a fan of the airline industry and in particular the US air carriers as well as the infamous terrorists TSA loons. There has to be a better and more efficient way to fix this situation because if they don't, with all the chaos that's been happening across US airports will worsen.

"In March, the United States announced laptop restrictions on flights originating from 10 airports including in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey because of fears that a concealed bomb could be installed in electronic devices taken onto aircraft."

Can always count on Reuters to mindlessly regurgitate the industry/government line. God, even Forbes got this right: "Electronic Travel Ban Is Trade Protectionism For Legacy Airlines"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandratalty/2017/03/21/new-electronic-travel-ban-is-trade-protectionism-for-legacy-carriers/#7fde70871203

paranoia...

Britain quickly followed suit with restrictions on a slightly different set of routes.

Of course they did. Must be seen to support the US, old chap.

I guess all this taking the laptop out of the bag for screening at airport security palaver is just for show then? If they ban laptops in the cabin it means their scanners cannot detect bombs in laptops. But that begs the question: how will they detect bombs in laptops which are in checked luggage?

Soccer-mom syndrome. You can't protect everyone, all the time. Life is hazardous to your health.

Make up your mind.

No Li-Ion batteries allowed in checked luggage. That was/is the current domestic mandate in the USA.

Now we must check Li-ion batteries/laptops?

Crazy people.

Any engineer can come up with a solution. I have a few in mind now. They are a hassle to implement. This completely ignores the inconvenience of not having access to our devices for international travel.

It isn't like the bad people can't take a flight from 'insert-bad-country' to Korea/Japan and then to the USA. Come in the back way (to many people). Less than smart, TSA/USA.

Realistically, I'd probably remove the SSD/HDD from any checked computer and carry that in my carryon while the computer is checked. A 32G USB3 flash drive is more than I need for a business trip.

A smartphone just isn't sufficient.

OTOH, happy I travel with a cheap chromebook that can be made into "my computer" in about 20 minutes with a flash drive thanks to Linux. A quick stop at any big-box store gets a replacement chromebook. Just an added company expense, I suppose, if all larger-than-phone devices get banned.

I find that for both business and pleasure that I can fit everything on a mobile phone.

And on a long haul the only thing I want to do is sleep....