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On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 09:58:33PM -0300, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Jinx wrote:
> 
> > Don't pack RC car for US trip
> > 
> > http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10467226
> 
> Ahem... I want to connect a cell phone modem to an RC servo. Can someone
> help me with that? What transistors do I need? :)

You know, it always puzzles me how these "dangerous terrorist groups"
with enough funding and man power to get access to training, weapons,
explosives and even box-cutters aparently end up with such primative
bomb designs.

A $30 solid-state altimeter should be more than enough to take down a
plane. Even just a bunch of bombs sent via courier would be quite enough
to do some serious economic damage I suspect. I doubt they'd really even
have to be particularly effective, just enough to ignite the cargo and
force the plane to land, done repeatedly.

Good luck x-raying packages and determining which is the bomb and which
is an old laptop... And I doubt bomb-sniffing equipment/dogs will do
much good against bombs sealed in epoxy and then boiled/cleaned with
solvents.

At the very least you could shut down post boxes accepting anything
larger than a small letter.

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