Flying into America? Don’t worry about that crackdown on laptops and similar gear in your carry-on luggage. It’s no longer happening. No, instead, the US has something else up its sleeve.
New screening technology in airports will sniff out any bombs in your IT kit. So says Homeland Security boss John Kelly has, although he doesn’t know exactly what that tech is.
Speaking on the opening day of the eighth annual Aspen Security Forum on Wednesday, Kelly said the ban earlier this year was triggered by credible intelligence that terrorists had developed a method of packing explosives into notebooks in such a way that conventional systems couldn’t detect them. The terror bastards, we’re told, had hoped to detonate the bombs mid-flight, committing murder on a mass scale.
However, no one, certainly no airlines, were totally happy about that crackdown, so it was shelved in favor of scanning people’s electronics with a new thing called CT. However when asked what that actually meant, Kelly was fuzzy on the details.
“It’s a new kind of technology,” he said. “I don’t know what CT stands for, but let me put it this way, when you go through your airport check in your bag goes through today, it goes through X-rays, your baggage checked goes through, for the most part CT technology.”
Source: The Register