Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
Ummmm.......when was the last time you flew?
8 years ago, but a google search for "do you have to take your shoes off to fly" yields nothing that tells me things have changed since then.


I didn't say that smart phones couldn't be used as a weapon. But people who's job it is to figure this stuff out have decided that they can determine a smart-phone's threat level by using the existing screening procedures for carry on items.

For larger electronics, I'm guessing that assessment can take more time, especially when you are aware of a "evaluated intelligence" that suggests one of these devices might be a threat.
I'm the one saying smartphones can be used as a weapon. If they think they already have the necessary tools to quickly anaylse the threat level of a phone, but not a tablet, then fair enough. But I find this really hard to believe. Like, really hard. A tablet is just a bigger phone. It's still works the same, so why can't the methods applied to phones be applied to tablets? Why take the tablet elsewhere and conduct it to different tests when the test the phone underwent would have sufficed?

It doesn't make sense to me.