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Electronics to be scrutinized under new TSA security measures

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Washington (CNN) -- Power it up, or leave it behind.

The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday that security screeners at overseas airports may ask U.S.-bound passengers to turn on their electronic devices to prove they work and aren't explosive devices.

They won't allow devices without power on board planes. The traveler may then undergo additional screening.

It's part of an update to security measures aimed at combating potential new threats from terrorists in the Middle East and Europe.
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why not the **** skip all these security measures. and just only allow peope to travel butnaked withouth luggage. then airtravel would be save.
another security theater message. SIGH!


edit: https://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/06/us/tsa-security-measures/ link to video and article
 
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fishonjazz said:
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incase ytoudont know what i mean.
i could modify a 17 inch laptop which has space for 2 harddisk. i can take out 1 of those hardisk. and suddenly there is more cubic space than an complete iphone to put explosive in it. it will still turn on like nothing is wrong. you could do anything with it.
it wont get through to explosive sniffing dogs.

long story short. just another ******** by TSA. to justify their existence. most of their measures make 0 sense whatsoever. it is just security theather.

for stupid people to fall for
 
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see it will turn on and everything and some nice c4 might be packed in that space. hold it up against airplane window at the right place detonate and plane is brought down.
not to mention you could take out some cells of the battery and also pack some c4 in there.
and also you could instal a msata harddisk and basically have the space of both hdds for c4
it will still turn on and everything. but it would still be a bomb.(again dont think it will go past the sniffing dogs)

so the turning on of devices is a stupid measure.
 
I have to say that I think the security measures are largely a joke. And the differences country to country are simply crazy, and there is no consistency.

In Amsterdam they made me wait for special screening when I was just changing planes headed to Berlin. When I asked them why they said it was because of how many electronics I had (I had my work laptop, my work cell, my personal cell and personal tablet). With me was an old lady maybe 80 who they were pushing in a wheelchair who had 3 electronic items so they were special searching her too.

Leaving Germany on one of my trips I set off the metals due to the hardware in my neck and back from my cancer surgery. This happens about 3 out of 5 times I go through security screening pretty much anywhere. They took me into a screening room and made me take off my shirt to prove I wasn't carrying anything and even still had a conversation about the probability of a 40-something fat white American possibly surgically sealing some dangerous weapon between my shoulder blades before letting me go. On another trip through the exact same airport I set off the metals, they touched my back, asked me about it and when I said surgery they said "ok" and just let me go.

The US has far tighter regs than other countries that I have been to, and are way more inconsistent and often ridiculous. In Germany and England they had no problem letting me take my water bottle through with me, and it had close to a liter of liquid in it. In Chicago I had a small bottle that I had purchased in the airport with about half of the water remaining in it which I was drinking from and they got mad at me that I took it all the way to security before disposing of it. I said hang on, guzzled it, then wanted to put the empty in my bag. It freaked them out and they had a 5 minute discussion which involved a supervisor when the guy asked me to step out of line and grilled me like I had just swallowed 10 pounds of highly dangerous explosives, and right in front of them, can you believe the temerity?!? Gasp, shock, awe!!!

Seriously, what the ****? They are so damn clueless what it takes to make anything actually safe, it feels like a circus almost every time I go through. And the gaping holes in the supposed security systems make me feel not at all safe in the end anyway. What a joke.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I have.................... What a joke.
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thanks for an intelligent response.
i just find it ridiculous and always make trouble for those guys on principle.

i am very security conscious. willing to do a lot for it except give up privacy and freedom.

was it on shciphol aiorport the electronic thingy. cus last year october i had 3 laptops with me in cary on
one new one for my brother and my old one for my mother and my current one was visiting them.
did not have any trouble like that.
i did not go through the scanner. i let them search me manually.


always seem to get in trouble with those guys. it is ridculous.
 
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