The TSA Blog is working? Like they are actually listening to people and quoshing stupidities?
On Monday afternoon we began receiving questions about airports that were requiring ALL electronics to be removed from carry-on bags (everything, including blackberrys, iPods and even cords). This practice was also mentioned on several other blogs and left us scratching our heads.
So…we checked with our security operations team to figure out what was going on. After some calls to our airports, we learned that this exercise was set up by local TSA offices and was not part of any grand plan across the country. These practices were stopped on Monday afternoon and blackberrys, cords and iPods began to flow through checkpoints like the booze was flowing on Bourbon Street Tuesday night. (Fat Tuesday of course).
I am astonished. That said, they are sticking to their guns on some matters, like a long screed about the importance of having many little 100ml bottles over one big one which stands in stark contrast to The Register’s take on the risk, plus the TSA’s posting contains the immortal line:
Why don’t you just ban all liquids? Because our National Labs and international allies demonstrated to my satisfaction that there is, in fact, a scientific basis for allowing small amounts of liquids on as carry-on.
Yep, they paid an actual scientist to work out that people like to be able to drink water, occasionally.
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