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>so everybody can get undressed Wait what? What are you removing? Flying in the US this week I removed nothing but a winter coat. Everything went on as normal, nothing out of bags, jut coat off.
I usually have to remove my jacket, and always the belt
Belts with plastic buckles are normally OK without having to remove them.
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It's easier to deport people for lying on their immigration form than for having been a member of a terrorist organization
But to prove lying you would have to prove being a terrorist anyway...
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In Zurich, you can buy Swiss army knives in the secure zone.
That's ok - 6cm blades are allowed. You can also carry it in a cabin luggage anyways. realistically any broken glass bottle can be used as a blade.
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It's easier to deal if it's in carry on bag. This is why batteries are forbidden in checked luggage. Once it all burns the airplane has got to land asap and it's an emergency. My checked luggage did not pass xray multiple times because they detected powerbanks. I had to come back and take it out. However it also did pass xray a couple times with powerbanks so it's not a reliable system.
Alternatively, I checked 3-4 20k mAh powerbanks in my luggage on my flight to Utah and it never got flagged or detected.
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Yeah. The "security theater" absolutely does play its part in stopping attacks. Without it, airplanes would be an extremely easy target for any nutjob to commit mass murder in. They wouldn't even necessarily need a bomb, anything that can cause a big enough fire mid-flight could be potentially catastrophic. Over past few decades many airliners have crashed because out of control fire in the cabin / cargo hold. I real…
Most would-be attackers are not suicidal, I suppose. You would have to be in order to start a fire on a plane that you are on.
Non-suicidal hijackings have pretty much been eliminated by cockpit doors as well as 911 changing people's reactions.
there is actually a science change that happened, and it's not (entirely) just politicians changing their mind. The big thing going from X-ray (2d) to CT (spin an X-ray machine around and take a ton of pictures to recreate a 3d image) did a lot to let security people see inside of a bag, but the hitch is that if you see a blob of gray is that water, shampoo or something else? The recent advance that is letting this h…
it has been such a godsend flying out of Frankfurt where they have the new scanners and you don't have to empty out your bag anymore. So much smoother. Then I fly back and get all annoyed at the other airports. I was told Oslo airport is holding out until it becomes regulation to use the new scanners. Security-Theater is still what it is. It is super weak imho, despite never having seriously attempted a heist or tryi…
So you've tried casually? What does a casual heist look like exactly?
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It wasn't -- was just noting that people keep saying "MRI", when there's no 5T fields around most security checkpoints
Isn't the world of MRIs moving towards lower teslas instead of higher?
This just adds confusion as to the purpose of all this. The motivation behind the liquid limits is that there are extremely powerful explosives that are stable water-like liquids. Average people have never heard of them because they aren’t in popular lore. There has never been an industrial or military use, solids are simpler. Nonetheless, these explosives are easily accessible to a knowledgeable chemist like me. The…
This just adds confusion as to the purpose of all this. The motivation behind the liquid limits is that there are extremely powerful explosives that are stable water-like liquids. Average people have never heard of them because they aren’t in popular lore. There has never been an industrial or military use, solids are simpler. Nonetheless, these explosives are easily accessible to a knowledgeable chemist like me. The…
I've also had this done on my dialysis port at some airports here in India :-|