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Re:U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe by mirimir on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:36AM (#14314406)
In Gibson's Count Zero, Turner was almost killed by a "Slamhound", an exploding dog trained to find him. I vaguely recall that the dog's liver was replaced by explosive.
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Re:U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe by arethuza on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:09AM (#14314513)
Sounds vaguely like the Soviet anti-tank dogs from WW2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

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Re:U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe by mirimir on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:52AM (#14314696)
Wow. That's crazy. And it didn't work, either. But humans arguably wouldn't get confused so readily.

Even so, they'd just X-ray all passengers.

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Re:U.S. To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe by zkms on Thursday May 11, 2017 @06:42AM (#14315075)
There already exist commercial transmission (not backscatter!) full-body x-ray security scanners. They are used in prisons now, but there's no reason they can't be used in airports.
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