Disruptions: Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why

29 Dec 2013 • bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Nick Bilton:

Surely if electronic gadgets could bring down an airplane, you can be sure that the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, which has a consuming fear of 3.5 ounces of hand lotion and gel shoe inserts, wouldn’t allow passengers to board a plane with an iPad or Kindle, for fear that they would be used by terrorists.

Oldie but goody... Dave Winer calls the author Blogger of the Year for helping affect the change of this ridiculous policy.