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From: Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org>
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Subject: Re: AKICIF: Exploding Pagers
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:51:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:01:54 -0000 (UTC), Torbjorn Lindgren wrote:

> Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>>On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:31:28 -0400, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
>>> Are there any SF stories that predicted the sort of attack via
>>> exploding pages/walkie-talkies/etc.?
>>
>>I wonder what effect these (news) stories will have on airport security
>>procedures. Up until now I haven't flown often so I was surprised in
>>August when the agent asked me if I had any tablets or laptops in my
>>carry-on and when I answered yes asked me to take it out (a Kindle Fire)
>>and place it in the tray to run through the x-ray separately from the
>>bag. I don't recall this happening on a trip last November.
> 
> This has been "best/standard practice" for more than a decade now in
> pretty much every airport I've flown via. That includes dozens of EU
> airports, dozens US airport (both domestic and international flights)
> and a couple of Asian ones.
 
Subsequently I found on the TSA website words to that effect.
One practice that happened last November that was not repeated in
the August trip was the following: Passengers were marched 
abreast in groups down a gangway while an agent walked a dog
back and forth behind us. Sniffing for heinous odors in our
wake, presumably.