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Re:Most Electronics Being Banned on Certain US-Bound Flights by KirinDave on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @02:38PM (#13924913)
Cell phones are most likely excluded because they're so obnoxiously hard to compromise compared to laptops. Cell phones, you need per-hardware exploits and the vendors patch aggressively.

When was the last time your laptop's USB controllers had a firmware upgrade for security hardening?

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Re:Most Electronics Being Banned on Certain US-Bound Flights by bzbarsky on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @09:32PM (#13927876)
That's a reasonable argument if the goal is being able to examine the devices. Nothing to do with texting, though. ;)
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