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Airplane bomb fears spark America's laptop, tablet carry-on ban

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Re: or stowed in the hold

I suspect someone has come up with a plausible way to use a bunch of lithium ion batteries to form a makeshift explosive. Given the success Samsung have had lately in their prototypes of such a device.

3 or more like-minded individuals with a (working) laptop battery each, could likely tamper with them in-flight to cause significant thermal runaway if stacked together.

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