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If there are LiIon batteries available, why bother will all this stuff? Just short them out and throw them somewhere strategic. Takes all of a minute.
> All of these findings have been reported to the Department of Homeland Security (TSA) to help them better detect these types of threats. The threats that the TSA itself admits are non-existent? ( http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/tsa-admits-... ) The best I can see coming of this is that the TSA will start to ban braided leather belts and condoms.
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How do you take the batteries apart without crushing the foil, shorting them, and causing a fire?
Carefully. ;) People cooking up shitty meth apparently do it ( http://health.utah.gov/meth/html/ToxicologyofMeth/Lithium.ht... ) but I don't know how they do it. They might be using tools that wouldn't be available in an airport, but I'm not so sure of that.
While this is all interesting, none of these videos show any actual lethal potential. I'm not saying that there is any, but there is no target and no way to show whether these tools inflict any meaningful damage.
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The more ludicrous the TSA gets with its bans, the better. In the long run doing that will only make them look like clowns and make the general public resent them more.
I've been waiting for backlash against absurd restrictions to close the TSA since 2001. Don't hold your breath.
Bad news ever since the TSA confiscated my toothpaste.[0]
[0] Yeah, it was actually a thing.
I think it comes down to what people are willing to put up with. Personally, I don't mind any of the TSA stuff a single bit. I've stood in line for hours, missed a flight, and gotten home at 1am due to TSA and other security stuff, but I don't mind because it at the very least acts as a deterrent. However, I think that most of these things could be solved with a second screening. None of these options would pass a se…
I don't mind because it at the very least acts as a deterrent. What evidence do you have for that belief? Here's my evidence to the contrary -- if the TSA really were deterring terrorist attacks, the result would be a shift to other targets. It isn't like a terrorist is going to just give up, go home and forget about causing terror. They are going to pick another easier target. So where are all the other attacks? Sin…
in the ten years before 9/11 the number of civilian attacks on US airplanes has been less than the fingers on one hand. After TSA 100% of these happened on non-flight targets.
Mind you, I still think the TSA is dumb.
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I don't mind because it at the very least acts as a deterrent. What evidence do you have for that belief? Here's my evidence to the contrary -- if the TSA really were deterring terrorist attacks, the result would be a shift to other targets. It isn't like a terrorist is going to just give up, go home and forget about causing terror. They are going to pick another easier target. So where are all the other attacks? Sin…
I like your reasoning, but couldn't you also say: in the ten years before 9/11 the number of civilian attacks on US airplanes has been less than the fingers on one hand. After TSA 100% of these happened on non-flight targets. Mind you, I still think the TSA is dumb.
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I've been waiting for backlash against absurd restrictions to close the TSA since 2001. Don't hold your breath.
> Don't hold your breath. Bad news ever since the TSA confiscated my toothpaste.[0] [0] Yeah, it was actually a thing.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-08-breast...
A bullet point list of materials, a paragraph of description, a few diagrams and an embedded video demonstration would be far more effective. A slideshow would also work well.
I apologise if this seems nitpicky, but as interesting as I found what you've done, I only watched half your videos because I found it so painful to sit through them. I doubt I am alone in this.