It's utterly insane to assume these 5k pagers were distributed before any of the users went on some international flight, so one of these must be true: * they had very strict order to not carry pagers abroad - and 5k terrorists didn't break that rule once * TSA and its equivalents are in on the at...

Damn. I hadn't even thought of that. They just showed that every single electronic device is technically a bomb and people bringing them on an airplane is a security risk. Big yikes.

TSA is a joke in general

Not really. Did Hezbollah operatives regularly travel from western airports with these things in their pocket? And it's not that easy to steal the phone of someone you don't like, open it, put an expensive in what little free space there is and then seal it again without them noticing. Even if you ...

I thought of this as well. You can’t bring peanut butter on a plane because it could be a bomb. To be consistent, they will have to ban phones as well. Imagine a world where you can’t bring your phone on a business trip. Maybe you will be able to rent a phone when you arrive!