For a technical crowd, I'm stunned not one of you understand the root cause for this ban. But I also understand it's not your fault because you would have to read the news from the Caliphate to know what's going on.
ISIS can make or has the intent to make or is trying to make Lithium Ion battery bombs.
Exageration you say? Go research it on Youtube, you'll see. This flaw has been known for years.
Think ISIS won't do it? Believe some crazy conspiracy that ISIS is a Mossad-KGB-Thule front?
Remember that recent passenger jet in Egypt destination Moscow that ISIS blew up killing everyone on board?
I saw with my own eyes the Mujahideen on Telegram weeks before the plane crash where they posted selfies of their new bomb. It literally fits in an Plastic Orange Soda bottle.
Now if you're brave and not under surveillance and not a Muslim and you live in a Nation that respects Free Speech and you want to know the Real News, see page 30 of this pdf:
https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/inspire-magazine-...
That is Al Qaida's 2015 magazine issue with the easy DIY blueprint for how to make it.I don't recommend reading all of it, but just enough until you go "holy shit it's that easy."
I almost didn't want to post this because god forbid the wrong you-know-who ever saw it and got "Inspired", but at the same time, this is a Catch-22, a Clear and Present Danger that folks need to know is real and is out there and so we must do whatever safety counter measures are necessary to ensure ISIS can never succeed in these style of attacks.
Take ISIS at their word--they are deadly serious, it's not a joke.
So If the solution to this horror show means fly naked, so be it! Don't complain, be grateful for your privilege.
Would you rather stay alive along with your fellow passengers, or have the convenience of dicking around on your laptop?
You still can use your iPhones so it's not like you're being strapped into a straightjacket for an 8 hour flight.