TSA Refuses To Explain Why You Have To Take Your Laptop Out Of Your Bag But Not Your iPad

April 10th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Kashmir Hill
Forbes
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

In the New York Times Travel section this weekend, Matt Richtel set out to explain one of the mysteries of the laborious TSA screening process: electronics discrimination. Why is it that you have to remove your laptop from your bag but can leave your iPad, Kindle, iPhone and/or iPod nestled snugly away?

“There must be a reason the laptop is singled out as the bad boy of electronics at the airport,” writes Richtel. Given the hassle of the extra screening step, and the cumulative security delays in having every person in line take 30 seconds to remove and then re-bag their bad boy, we would certainly hope so. TSA policies, though, require keeping the cat in the bag when it comes to answering this question:

Next stop: T.S.A. They ought to know, right? It’s their rule.

A spokesman said the agency has its reasons for still requiring that traditional laptops go through X-ray machines in a separate bin. But he declined to share them, saying the agency didn’t want to betray any secrets.

via The Mystery of the Flying Laptop – NYTimes.com.

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18 Responses to “TSA Refuses To Explain Why You Have To Take Your Laptop Out Of Your Bag But Not Your iPad”

The TSA has nothing to do with safety. It is all about treating the general population like cattle.

People line up by the thousands every day to be violated by a stranger and don’t question it.
When the madness began. At the beginning. When they had not standardized their stupidity.

They were taking the batteries out of laptops and also insisting you turn your computer on and off to show it really was a computer.

At Norfolk Airport they did this to mine back in 2003. Put it in the container to go through the machine. When I arrived on the otherside the computer was cooked.

The morons had jacked up the power on the baggage X-Ray just because they could.

Who wants to bet if there is a “VOLUME” control on the body scanners some dimwit is jacking up the level to 11? Maybe if they turn it up all the way they can see the BOOBIES better. Maybe they are like, I am low paid and will never travel like these guys… I’ll cook them.

It is a proven fact they have hired the lowest of the low. Morons. Perverts. Wanna bet they would turn the power all the way up if they had their fingers on the knob.
ANSWER: eye-pad
I use my laptop bag as general storage so it’s always fun when airport security remind me to take out the laptop that isn’t there.

the sage Reply:
April 10th, 2012 at 12:44 pm

Careful…they do shoot people in the head for even less-funny jokes and chicanery.

fflubot Reply:
April 10th, 2012 at 2:36 pm

No joke, I put a dildo in one of the guys in the office puter bag before he left for the airport…

I got shit on when he got back.
my friend’s aunt makes $75 hourly on the laptop. She has been out of a job for 8 months but last month her check was $8620 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read more here… makecash16.com

wildcat Reply:
April 10th, 2012 at 10:54 am

Then the TSA found all that cash in her lsptop bag, asked why she needed all that dough instead of using credit cards or travellers cheques. Explaining that she didn’t have the money to own a car to drive down to the nearest bank or ATM machine only led to her arrest, confiscation of the laptop and cash followed by strip search snd fingerprint chrch. The latter revealed thst she had an outstanding fine for failing to return library books ftom her final year at high school.
TSA ARE ASSHATS!!

Huggles Reply:
April 10th, 2012 at 2:13 pm

“Asshat” is this a local apparel sniper? I am trying very hard not to imagine what a hat in the form of an ass might look like. LOL!!!
Because like the american government. THEY ARE INSANE !! And so are all those that fly and keep this madness alive. CRASH the whole effing lot !!
All the terrorists live in the stolen land of izraHELL !! And they tell the DF. in washington what to do !
We all need a “Proxy” war in america NOW ! And in europe !!
TSA: TRASH your suitcase, STEAL your valuables, ASSUME no responsibility.

Seriously though: Genuine terrorist organizations, for effect, rely on a *sustained* program of attacks, where events happen on a regular basis. The attack sequence tends to involve well populated “soft” targets, ie where there is relatively little security, and where the attackers can get away, maintaining the organizations membership, experience and expertise, and be free to strike again.

High security areas, like airports, are the domain of *government* or *military sponsored* attacks, using *patsies*. The security corporations which run the selected airports are often compromised – ICTS being a prime example. This is the Israeli based firm that ran “security” at not only at the airports where the 9/11 flights originated, but also Schiphol and de Gaulle (Amsterdam and Paris) from where the “Underwear bomber” (Abdulmutallab) and the “Shoe bomber” (Richard Reid) were carefully escorted onto their flights, to attempt to set off “bombs” that could never explode, in order to maintain the illusion of Islamic terrorism being the principle threat to the US.

Also: Real “bona fide” terrorist groups (if that is an appropriate term) do NOT use electronic means of communication (email, cellphone, chatrooms, facebook, etc). Any intelligence agent worth their salt knows that terrorists (and organized crime gangs) communicate either in face to face meetings, or by using snail mail or courier. The massive program of snooping, wiretapping, surveillance and spying that has been ongoing since 9/11 has nothing to do with stopping terrorism – it is part of both the ongoing a war against we the people, and the maintenance of a huge corporate welfare scam, paid for by those who are being perpetually surveilled by the army of paranoid peeping toms.
Checking computers but ignoring other devices is a false paradigm; and if they check them all, flying times will be prohibitive. Letting go of the false need to have everyone’s information and checking solely for physical devices should be the goal. If an individual is shown to have some kind of destructive device, then their laptops, phones and tech should be gone over.
they dont need a reason THEY ARE T.S.A. ! wholey shit dont question such a highly trained security force such as this. they are from the government and they are here to help.

i wonder if these misfits get a lavish “team building” trip to sin city ?
Very interesting maybe the nwo can’t control laptops the same as ipads.
maybe onto something here folks findout what type of laptops are being “checked”.

then again the tsa could simply not like laptops who knows ?
Laptops have lots of cavities that can be used to hide stuff. Hard disk drive bays, battery packs, PCMCIA sockets. Laptop lids have enough space to store papers. Just one Gigabyte of data space is equivalent to 500,000 pages of text. Four gigabytes is equivalent to a film reel can. Laptop disk drives are around 600 Gigabytes.
All panels can be removed using a standard technicians screwdriver set.

Ipads and Ipods have custom screws to keep everything locked in, as well as having far less space to hide stuff.
Another good trick is to dress up like Raj Binder (CBC comic) and go through security with a bunch of stinking filthy shit in your carry on bag. Make them sort through it. ha.