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The Transportation Security Agency has revealed that an 11.6" MacBook air may go through security without leaving it's bag. The 13" MacBook air is still to be determined...

More here at 9to5mac

I am certainly no expert on terrorist methods, but it sure does seem these guys have it on the ball, so who am I to question their methodology? Oh yeah, I have a blog... so what on earth does the size of device or whether it has a hard drive vs flash memory matter? What of 1" micro-drives instead? How about external USB  storage?

Let me get this straight; I don't have to take out my 11.6" MacBook air out of a bag for standalone scanning because it has no hard drive or optical drive, and I can also keep in my bag a 1TB exernal hard drive and SuperDrive to connect to the MacBook air, because that's safe...

But seriously, I believe I've understood the methodology here. With Apple, each model and product is scrutinized under some form of unknown/secret "Apple rule book" while the thousands of other laptops and netbooks are scrutinized by "eh, looks about right. Proceed."

1 Comment

1. E. Werner Reschke ~ October 28, 2010 17:36
   I think the reason that TSA let's the 11" MBA go is because it is too small to conceal anything that could potentially be damaging. Whereas a PeeCee laptop could be gutted and you could place enough explosives inside the cavity to blow 7 planes sky high. The MBA is just too thin to be anything but another cool computer from Apple.

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