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Russia is not going to use a laptop bomb on a plane. Why would they? They're doing all the damage they want with cyberattacks.
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I don't mean that. But they're fighting a war in Syria and don't particularly care about ISIS. We run NSA, CIA, etc., to figure them out,
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Russia is protecting Assad, which was almost thrown out of office by ISIS. Sure they care.
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Threat to Assad was from combined uprising, not from ISIS itself. Ru+Assad have largely ignored them and used them to weaken other rebels
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so they care, yes, but not particularly care. Being able to work out details of America + allies intel is infinitely more important to them
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and more harmful to us. I agree with you that laptops on a plane might not even matter. But this is speculation about how it could be worse
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Even in a neutral hypothetical giving Russia info that might let them reverse something is directly negating dollars out of our budget
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Only if we're in a reverse engineer race to the bottom with Russia about how to make a laptop into a bomb, which is a cinch.
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Russia collects all kinds of intel on us, and whoever this was from, but may not understand its organization or what it is referring to, and
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