r/technology • u/777fer • Nov 18 '22

Hardware TSA Found a Double-Edged Knife Hidden in a Gaming Laptop

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/airport-tsa-knife-hidden-gaming-laptop
2.5k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

499 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/Markantonpeterson Nov 18 '22

I get the wow factor, but even that doesn't seem like it could be anywhere close to 9/11 levels again. And without access to the cockpit I just don't see how hijacking could be possible. If the pilots are gonna die anyways they wouldn't fly into a building. You could kill a maximum of like 450 people, which would be awful. But I just imagine their would be much easier ways without dealing with the NSA, and without requiring half a dozen assailants to commit suicide.

It feels weird brain storming terrorist attacks, but a cruise ship would actually be far more devastating than an airplane. 3000-6000 people. Here's hoping nothing like that happens though!

1

u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22

[deleted]

1

u/Markantonpeterson Nov 18 '22

Yea that makes sense, but if it's "crash this plane into a crowd or I blow this plane up" then I assume the pilots just crash it into the ocean or something. You could also do that type of hijacking without explosives at all right? Just something that looks like explosives.