Quoting Arnt Gulbrandsen (arnt@???):

> Rick Moen writes:
> >Funny that you should mention that: You might actually have seen that
> >tale as related by _me_ on Risks Digest.
>
> The substance is similar but the wording unfamiliar. Could it
> possibly be that such a thing has happened twice? Surely not.

Probably the same airline incident, described twice.

> (BTW, I had to explain a two-routers-in-one-19" thing in my hand
> luggage very thoroughly once. The odd appearance and solid steel
> construction made them jittery. But my double-edged razor blades
> went by without comment.)

Heh. You can imagine the problems winners of the Hugo Award had flying
home with a metal trophy shaped like a metre-tall rocket.
http://www.thehugoawards.org/content/hugos-large/1993.jpg
These days, the awarding convention just offers to ship them home, for
winners.

> Edge case is the right term, and the proverb goes "optimize for the
> common case".

I believe another proverb goes 'Don't blow security as a default.' ;->

But anyway, it's not like I get a vote.