As a traveller with a lot of tech along for the ride, the security queue even in Europe can be a little troublesome. The following article though may indicate more trouble ahead.

The Transportation Security Administration has banned ink and toner cartridges of more than 16 ounces from both carry-on bags and checked luggage on flights within the United States or in-bound to the United States. You know why: because of that incident from a few days ago where authorities found bombs hidden inside toner cartridges.

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Even though we have heard about lifting the need to get the 11 inch Macbook Air out of hand luggage in the US, this has not transferred to Europe and is likely not going to. This is particularly a problem for me in future if I travel like I have this week – with both my main laptop (13 inch) and my notetaker netbook (10 inch), plus a load of cables, dongles and hard drives. Less said the better about my spare mobile phone .

We shall just have to see how this all develops.