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If this is a good idea now, then why won't it still be a good idea in a year? A decade? After all, terrorist plots will always exist in potentia (can you prove that no terrorist plots are hatching at this moment?) Until they handcuff us all nude to our seats and dart us with tranquilizers, there will always be the possibility that a passenger will do something naughty on a plane (even then, who knows how much semtex and roofing nails a bad guy could hide in his colon?).

Cory Doctorow (from Boing Boing) on the recent ban on hand luggage on UK flights. I'm glad I didn't book my flight for any later or I'd have had to leave half my luggage behind!