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"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs

posted by martyb on Monday April 03 2017, @09:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the Boom-Box dept.

takyon writes:

Will law enforcement gain the power to search laptops at any time by declaring them potential bombs?

US intelligence and law enforcement agencies believe that ISIS and other terrorist organizations have developed innovative ways to plant explosives in electronic devices that FBI testing shows can evade some commonly used airport security screening methods, CNN has learned. Heightening the concern is US intelligence suggesting that terrorists have obtained sophisticated airport security equipment to test how to effectively conceal explosives in laptops and other electronic devices.

The intelligence, gathered in the last several months, played a significant role in the Trump administration's decision to prohibit travelers flying out of 10 airports in eight countries in the Middle East and Africa from carrying laptops and other large electronic devices aboard planes. The findings may raise questions about whether the ban is broad enough. CNN has learned that, through a series of tests conducted late last year, the FBI determined the laptop bombs would be far more difficult for airport screeners to detect than previous versions terrorist groups have produced. The FBI testing focused on specific models of screening machines that are approved by the Transportation Security Administration and are used in the US and around the world.

Also at USA Today and The Washington Examiner.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @02:07PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @02:07PM (#488192)

    We should dress up some terrorists as TSA agents, with the idiots in power, that may actually lead to TSA's removal faster than anything else ...

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by isostatic on Monday April 03 2017, @04:50PM

    by isostatic (365) on Monday April 03 2017, @04:50PM (#488263) Journal

    The TSA causes fear and terror across a large swathe of the world, far more than ISIS could ever hope to do so.

  • (Score: 2) by fishybell on Monday April 03 2017, @06:19PM

    by fishybell (3156) on Monday April 03 2017, @06:19PM (#488286)

    Dress up the terrorists as the TSA.

    Dress up the TSA as terrorists (to test the TSA's abilities to find terrorists).

    TSA now dressed as TSA. All TSA agents are now marked as terrorists.

    If you avoid infinite recursion, it just might work!