There are simple solutions to printer cartidges

Hi Kabir

Unfortunately the authorities can’t envisage or foresee everything a ‘sick’ mind of a terrorist will conceive to use to secrete explosives or timing devices.

After all who thought anyone would use shoes, liquid in bottles, and many other common items used by terrorists in the past to secrete explosives.

Very ‘sick’ minds manage to do so and the authorities haven’t got many of these ‘sick’ minds working for them to identify which of the most common consumer items can be used for secreting explosives.

It may seem like knee jerk reaction but can it be helped?
Can anyone conceive of a see all, reveal all machine and if there was, how long would it take to build and the cost would cripple most airport authorities?

Especially manufacturers of the larger laser printer toner cartidges can alter their packing material to be clear blister pack with hologram and RFID identifiers rather than using as at present purely cardboard outer packing.

Security screening devices can possibly be easier tuned as can staff be trained to recognise tampered with blister packs than travellers cursing the fact that they have now to be checked if carrying toner cartridges/banned from carry on luggage alltogether.

Also I am unsure how many bona fide passengers carry toner cartidges with them as in most internet/cyber cafes and hotels there are printers of reasonable to high quality.

My message ‘sod’ the inconveniences fly, fly, fly and sort these crazies out, by being as defiant as they are and not cave into paranoia and fear they try to instill into the developed/developing worlds.

Air travel is still the safest and must remain so.

Would bringing back the death penalty in all countries for abject terrorism be an answer ? Probably not as these fanatics believe that by being a martyr to the cause they guarantee a place in heaven. Therefore by putting them to death as a punishment for the crimes thay have committed they are facilitated in reaching their ‘heaven’.