Originally Posted by
finfly1
Malta huh? Did the delegates stow their laptops in the below decks baggage area then, or carry them on board?
I'd bet that the DHS delegates to the Malta conference used a US government aircraft – there are no direct flights from US to Malta and they could surely justify going private. So either there was no security check, or they used their status to bypass it. So I'd bet they took their laptops on board, going and coming.
That's what annoys me about the laptop ban – and most of the US's other security-theatre – and US immigration too – the rule-makers themselves, and the people the rule-makers listen to, can bypass a lot of the hassle, so they've no incentive to make things better.