The Department of Homeland Stupidity is hard at work as usual:

In addition, no high risk cargo will be allowed on passenger aircraft. Toner and ink cartridges over 16 ounces will be prohibited on passenger aircraft in both carry-on bags and checked bags on domestic and international flights in-bound to the United States.

(Emphasis mine.)

I can’t wait to see what “high risk cargo” they will ban next. Didn’t that guy a while back have explosives hidden in his underwear? Maybe they should ban underwear.

I found this via an NYT interview with security expert Bruce Schneier, in which he says:

It’s not that the terrorist picks an attack and we pick a defense, and we see who wins. It’s that we pick a defense, and then the terrorists look at our defense and pick an attack designed to get around it. Our security measures only work if we happen to guess the plot correctly. If we get it wrong, we’ve wasted our money. This isn’t security; it’s security theater.

Word.