Except last time I checked, possession of a mobile device is not required by law? So, what the fuck.
Not to mention: [
"the battery's dead and the proprietary charger
is stuck in checked baggage", "whoops i lost the
battery", "whoops i dropped the phone and now it
is broken", "whoops cannot power on without
password for encryption", "aw shucks my phone is
keister stashed so come get it big boy", "hello
look at this childrens toy which very closely
resembles a cellular phone ha ha", "gee why does
this powered on mobile device emit far more radio
spectrum energy than expected even though i am
usually a law abiding citizen?"
]
Airports that are operated competently will provide μUSB and Lightning power tables at security. Mercenary airports will provide for-pay stations.
Lots of international airports are competently run. Most US airports, unfortunately, are neither competent nor even competently mercenary so there will be trouble when the TSA imports this plan to the USA.
TFA states passengers will have to turn on their phones if they have them. I assume the fear is that you'll have a phone-like bomb with a chemical battery-like component.
Well, the non-cutesy response is to cull local IMEI's (with false base station attacks) and spoof random IMEI's that spam local base stations with control channel traffic, and swamp normal signal data with noise. (not quite "jamming", per se, but maybe something close to it)
Someone could likely accomplish this, and enable others to participate in the protest of security theater, by developing and distributing an open-source application that interfaces with a number of readily available software defined radio antennas (preferably those costing less than one hundred dollars).
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Except last time I checked, possession of a mobile device is not required by law? So, what the fuck.
Airports that are operated competently will provide μUSB and Lightning power tables at security. Mercenary airports will provide for-pay stations.
Lots of international airports are competently run. Most US airports, unfortunately, are neither competent nor even competently mercenary so there will be trouble when the TSA imports this plan to the USA.
TFA states passengers will have to turn on their phones if they have them. I assume the fear is that you'll have a phone-like bomb with a chemical battery-like component.
Toothpaste remains completely banned.
Well, the non-cutesy response is to cull local IMEI's (with false base station attacks) and spoof random IMEI's that spam local base stations with control channel traffic, and swamp normal signal data with noise. (not quite "jamming", per se, but maybe something close to it)
Someone could likely accomplish this, and enable others to participate in the protest of security theater, by developing and distributing an open-source application that interfaces with a number of readily available software defined radio antennas (preferably those costing less than one hundred dollars).
Although, to do so might be terr'ism.