The bans sparked criticism from technology experts, who said the new rules appeared to be at odds with basic computer science.
Nicholas Weaver, researcher at the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, said last month: “It doesn’t match a conventional threat model. If you assume the attacker is interested in turning a laptop into a bomb, it would work just as well in the cargo hold.”
I'm not sure what this has to do with computer science, unless computer science includes "the science of things shaped like computers", or why you need Nicholas Weaver to tell you about how bombs in cargo holds work.