Wow, that's a blast from the past. I recall having to do the same with my Game Boy and cell phone when traveling through ATL in the 90's, well before the TSA was created.
TSA: Some on US-bound flights must turn on phones
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#22Would someone please start a religion that denies the authority of the TSA so we can opt out of this security theater on religious grounds?
If you are an Orthodox Jew, I don't think you can turn on a cellphone on the Sabbath.
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#23Another on the long list of reasons I don't every fly to, from or through the USA even though it sometimes makes my routes longer and more expensive.
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#24Except last time I checked, possession of a mobile device is not required by law? So, what the fuck. Not to mention: [ "the battery's dead and the proprietary charger is stuck in checked baggage", "whoops i lost the battery", "whoops i dropped the phone and now it is broken", "whoops cannot power on without password for encryption", "aw shucks my phone is keister stashed so come get it big boy", "hello look at this c…
var terroristWarningFlags = // sarcasm...? Either way, with the TSA you don't win with reason or truth.
Well, the non-cutesy response is to cull local IMEI's (with false base station attacks) and spoof random IMEI's that spam local base stations with control channel traffic, and swamp normal signal data with noise. (not quite "jamming", per se, but maybe something close to it)
Someone could likely accomplish this, and enable others to participate in the protest of security theater, by developing and distributing an open-source application that interfaces with a number of readily available software defined radio antennas (preferably those costing less than one hundred dollars).
Although, to do so might be terr'ism.
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#25Another on the long list of reasons I don't every fly to, from or through the USA even though it sometimes makes my routes longer and more expensive.
Bravo, go ahead and pat yourself on the back again as you add nothing to the conversation.
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#26Except last time I checked, possession of a mobile device is not required by law? So, what the fuck. Not to mention: [ "the battery's dead and the proprietary charger is stuck in checked baggage", "whoops i lost the battery", "whoops i dropped the phone and now it is broken", "whoops cannot power on without password for encryption", "aw shucks my phone is keister stashed so come get it big boy", "hello look at this c…
TFA states passengers will have to turn on their phones if they have them. I assume the fear is that you'll have a phone-like bomb with a chemical battery-like component.
Toothpaste remains completely banned.
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#27Would someone please start a religion that denies the authority of the TSA so we can opt out of this security theater on religious grounds?
If you are an Orthodox Jew, I don't think you can turn on a cellphone on the Sabbath.
This is actually a very good point...I wonder if there will be a religious exemption. Some Orthodox Jews can be exceptionally strict (I once was on a delayed flight where we had to offload some of the passengers, since due to the delays their connecting flight would have taken place on the Sabbath).
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#28Would someone please start a religion that denies the authority of the TSA so we can opt out of this security theater on religious grounds?
If you are an Orthodox Jew, I don't think you can turn on a cellphone on the Sabbath.
Observant Jews don't fly on planes, drive in cars, or use money on the Sabbath, either. So it's fairly unlikely that someone who observes the Sabbath would be asked to turn on a cellphone by the TSA at that time.
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#29They do this at Ben Gurion Airport too - make you turn on all your electronics, the Israeli airports are praised for their security procedures - right? eg: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/23/airport-security_n_...
Israel openly practices racial profiling of passengers[0], something which is not legal in the US (which must instead practice it in secret)[1][2]. I would not want to use Israel's security procedures as a model for the US for a number of reasons - the unabashed racial profiling is one, but a more basic reason is the fact that Israel faces a very real and direct threat, whereas the TSA itself admits that there is no…
They've also done a remarkably good job of pissing off a lot of their neighbors.
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#30This has to be one of the silliest moves yet. What a monstrous waste the TSA is. A waste in resources better utilized elsewhere.
TSA is not a waste. It's a business model (for some).