Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights
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Re: Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights
#2I feel so safe now everybody sitting in my plane have charged iPhone's & Galaxy's.
Always expected that people who 'loaned' my iOS lightning charger where terrorist.
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#3I don't understand, what has the phone being charged got to do with anything?
Re: Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights
#4Clearly it has nothing to do with the device being charged, but rather eliminating an excuse as to why the device doesn't have the ability to be powered on. (Allegedly proving it's a real device, and not a bomb being made to look like a laptop or phone.)
That being said: http://xkcd.com/651/
Re: Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights
#5I don't understand, what has the phone being charged got to do with anything?
Uncharged phones could be hidden explosives. To prove it's a electronic device, you have to turn it on. But it's kind of moot if you just explode the battery directly right?
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#6I don't understand, what has the phone being charged got to do with anything?
It's to prove that it's a genuine phone/laptop, and not one with the internals replaced with explosives.
Re: Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights
#7Rationale being?
– Validate the integrity of the device from looking at the screen?
– Obtain an electronic record of the device entering the country?
Re: Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights
#8I don't understand, what has the phone being charged got to do with anything?
If your device is charged you can prove it actually works; if it's not, you can say "Well, it works, but it happens not to be charged--that's why it isn't doing anything."
Presumably the idea is that techniques used to convert a laptop or phone into a bomb would render the device inoperable. It certainly seems like a harder task to make a bomb that is also a phone, rather than a bomb that used to be a phone.
Re: Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights
#9I don't understand, what has the phone being charged got to do with anything?
If it's not charged, you can't turn it on to show it's actually a phone.
Re: Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights
#10Rationale being? – Validate the integrity of the device from looking at the screen? – Obtain an electronic record of the device entering the country?
Possibly: that lithium batteries can turn into wild explosive fires.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-22/lithium-power-seen-...