3 responses

• jessica Aug 19, 2008
   

  This news seems to be true. The TSA announced it on their site, too.

   
• todd Aug 20, 2008
   

  this is only going to cause *more* confusion. which bags? with nothing else in them? so where do you put your camera and camera charger and ethernet cable and headphones and paper notebook and pens and keys and business cards and *all* the other crap you carry in your laptop bag now.
  
  yet another expected display of incompetence from the TSA. security theater evolves and endures and no one is any safer.

   
• jessica Aug 20, 2008
   

  The TSA's announcement answers some of what you ask. It sounds like you can put them in the same bag, but you have to put the bag into the x-ray machine in such a way that the computer compartment is separate from the portion with all the cables and other stuff. I picture bags that have the compartments zipped or velcroed together to make it easy to disconnect them from each other to go through airport security.