Take note.

[arsenal]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39348615

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[Oliver]

A field day for the baggage thieves. Typical of my sad little country that it poodles along after the US. Blair and Bush; now May and Trump. Always seeking a pat on the head from our masters. It's ironic that the Brexiteers claimed that they were interested in UK "independence". In fact, many of the leading Tories in the group are far-right Atlanticists. Fox, Gove, Johnson... they'd be much happier in Redneckville.

[arsenal]

In all probability Oliver the Intel for this came from The UK. Even the Chinese have complained about GCHQs listening skills.

[Surfcrest]

It all sounds suspicious. How would it, detonating in cargo, be any less impactful? No doubt, when the device is out of the hands of the rightful owner, it can be searched more discretely. Perhaps an increase in lost or late baggage from these carriers passing through the US would explain what's really up.

Surfcrest

[arsenal]

Lithium batteries plus crazed but brilliant zealots plus seriously skilled electronics experts = not too hard to work out really.

[cdnmatt]

By this logic, shouldn't shoes and underwear be banned on all flights too? Terrorists have tried to sneak boms in them too.
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[Oliver]

I stopped believing this sort of intelligence years ago. MI6 has lost its credibilty. Remember Iraq?The lap-top danger was faced a decade ago. We sitll have to remove our devices from their bags at UK airports....why should the scanning be more effective than this in the baggage area?
The problem is that our governments feed off our fear; and security services are always demanding more money, whatever their level of competence or the veracity of the "security" alerts. Orwell saw this when he wrote 1984.
And so my first question when something like hits the news, via our beloved government, is always, "Cui bono?" It's certainly not us.
By the way, do these security experts believe that a guy who is willing to kill himself (as well as you and me) and can have the means to cheat the scanners used for hand luggage, hasn't the ability to start the journey from elsewhere?
In my view , it is May and MI6 sucking -up to Trump. And I'd be interested in the link between this and the allegations made by Trump about MI6.

[arsenal]

It seems that Oliver and Trump share similar levels of paranoia. About almost everything..

[Oliver]

Unfair. Iraq and the lies we were told by security services, actually happened. This from The Independent;

Philip Baum, editor of Aviation Security International magazine, said: ”If we cannot, in 2017, distinguish between a laptop that contains an IED and one that does not, then our screening process is completely flawed. And encouraging people to check laptops, and other such items, into the luggage hold simply makes the challenge even harder

[arsenal]

You can't hark back to Iraq every time you want to not believe the security services Oliver. Different PM and different govt now. However it does seem that almost anything can be hacked including the controls of a plane.