Geek woman news story of possible interest...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 09:21:48PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> One of my brothers had something "more interesting;" he had
> (non-working, of course) samples of the charges used for automobile
> airbags.  They were 'provably' non-functional samples on the basis of
> having a drop of orange paint, in an appropriate spot.
> 
> All was well, and everyone was happy enough with that.
> 
> Of course, the "fly" in the ointment is that painting an orange dot on
> a *real* one wouldn't be terribly difficult, and that would presumably
> be a way to get a not-inconsiderable bit of explosive onto a plane.  I
> don't think they'd permit this anymore.

I would hope the airport's explosives detector could tell the
difference.

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