US may add airports to electronics ban

[oberliner]

31. US intel indicates that terrorists are actively trying to hide a bomb in a laptop

It appears that such a bomb would be undetectable by the screening that is currently in place.

Seems like the thing to do would be to improve the technology so that the screening would be able to detect such a bomb.

Until those improvements are made, it makes sense to restrict laptops from being taken on board as carry-ons.

Seems like a pretty minor inconvenience/first world problem to make such an accommodation.

If someone did get a bomb hidden in a laptop through security and blew it up on board, killing people, we would certainly see such restrictions put in place in our airports in the aftermath.

Why not be proactive, rather than reactive if intel indicates this is a specific and credible threat?

Presumably, it would just be temporary while improvements to screening are being made.