Why the U.S. is cracking down on gadgets in airplane cabins
AIRLINE SECURITY REQUIRES constant vigilance as terrorists’ tactics evolve with consumer technology. In 2010 an al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen tried to slip a bomb hidden inside a printer cartridge onto a cargo flight bound for the U.S. Last year a Somali airliner was nearly brought down when a suicide bomber detonated a device concealed in his laptop.
To keep pace with the evolving threat, the
