Knife
Yesterday, I was rummaging in my backpack, to make space for a few things I wanted to put in there and that I wanted to take along with me on the daytrip. As I was doing so, I found I'd forgotten to remove a knife from it before leaving for Argentina. Not just any knife, mind you:
Yet with this monster in my backpack, I managed to pass security in Brussels International Airport with no issues. At all. Luckily I didn't have to go through security a second time on a different airport, or I might have been in serious trouble.
By their own rules, however, they failed. Utterly.
You're using Linux, you travel with a knife, you are a terrorist. Don't move I'm calling Interpol and the FBI.
BTW do you mean you had this in your hand baggage ?
You're somehow surprised by this? Did you think for a minute that airport security had anything whatsoever to do with actual security? No, it's about the perception of security, which is far more important for some reason. As if anyone with an IQ of 90 or better needs more that 10 minutes to think of two or three ways around the current theater....
All those years of managing crypto, exporting munitions and such... you are so crooked now you even fool yourself. I won't fly on the same airplane you do. Ever. (but mainly for geographical reasons)
I travelled back to Argentina (my own country) from Miami Airport with a knife in my handbag as well. It was a little smaller than the one you show, but nevertheless dangerous.
I, like you, had forgotten I had it in my bag. It was in a pouch along with a lot of coins. When my bag went through the metal detector they saw a bunch of metallic things and they asked me to take the pouch out of my bag. I did so and they asked me what was inside and I said coins (I seriously forgot I had the knife in there). They let me go without opening the pouch. This was 4 years after 9/11.
Another time I travelled with nail clippers. The funny thing is that right before the security screening I remembered I had the nail clipper and told the security guy about it. He told me it was ok to keep it, so I boarded the plane with it in my pocket.