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Airplane device ban was in response to iPad bomb

A report suggests that the recent American and British bans of large computing devices on flights from several countries was in response to intelligence which found that an iPad bomb would look to be blown up. It wasn't an actual iPad, but a device made to look like one in order to pass security checkpoints.
 
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