
In particular, the following additional measures were put in place:
As a precaution Britain said it was banning air passengers from taking large toner cartridges onto planes as hand luggage, while Nigeria said it would improve the scanning of cargo bound for the United States.
Okay, the terrorists will never be able to bring bombs on board inside toner cartridges anymore. They have nothing to do but use laptops, smartphones, pocket radios, Kens and Barbies and electric guitars for this purpose. The terrorists originating from Nigeria will just buy two tickets, from Nigeria to, say, Moldova (to bypass improved cargo scanning), and, further, from Moldova right to the United States.
Germany said it had suspended passenger flights from Yemen, and was considering expanding a cargo flight ban to other unnamed countries.
Wow. If Moldova won't accept flights from Nigeria, I know the country to use instead ;).
Britain said it was also banning all air freight sent from Somalia, adding to a ban on Yemen cargo flights imposed at the weekend.
Just another shot at the sky.
All the above cases share the same problem. There is a number of holes in the fence the attackers can reach the rancho through. Having caught the attackers by the hand getting through one of that holes, the government patches it... but does not consider the other holes, even though they are pretty close to the patched one. Disallowing to bring cartridges on board with a hand luggage, as well as rejecting flights from Yemen and Somalia, will change nothing. There is nothing that stops terrorists from simply using hand stuff of other kind and different countries to reach their goals. This is so obvious that I tend to think that either the governments have nothing to oppose to the terrorists with, or... well, nevermind.
Thanks to cracksinthepavement.com for the picture.