On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 04:06:55PM +0530, Charles Haynes wrote: > "A good example is last year's plot to smuggle common chemicals on board > commercial flights using drink containers. The chemicals would then be mixed
I don't think such plan ever existed, but I assure I would have absolutely no problems bringing down a commercial airliner with material barely enough to fill your computer mouse. (Oh, and I wouldn't be even onboard when that would happen, of course. Suicide missions are for idiots). I could however easily bring several kilograms of undetectable (no vapor pressure, no nitrogen, dogs not trained on) high explosive onboard, which is not recognizable as such on an contrasted x-ray. I'm deliberately not giving you more details, because many of you here probably already know how to do it with the information given, or could figure it out within minutes. And there's jack squat you can do about it, which renders all the flight security as pure Kabuki theater. Very entertaining, completely useless but for catching an occasional amateur who has very few chances to pull it off, anyway. > together to form explosives, which if detonated by a small charge from, say, > a few modified AA batteries, could be powerful enough to bring down the > aircraft." A single lithium cell and an electrolyte capacitor is quite enough to trigger a detonator. Hey, is that a LED flashlight, or a detonator? Is that a photo flash, or a detonator? > then the entire article is hysterical nonsense. I don't think the arcticle describes a current reality. It describes a potential of what advanced technology offers to smart, resourceful individuals and groups. That one is absolutely spot-on. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
