Sai once gave a talk advertising LessWrong at the Chaos Computer Congress (CCC) in Berlin.
At the flight to Berlin he just boarded the plane with fruit juice. He got it on the fruit by declaring it as a medical drug that he needs to keep his glucose level up. He said he knew the TSA rules better than the TSA folks. Then he asked how he can listen to the cockpit radio and got kicked out.
He took the next plane and allegedly took undetected enough pure caffeine with him to blow up the plane and allegedly told the crowd at the CCC about it which was probably a dumb move.
While he’s no lawyer by trade, I think he knows very well to navigate the rules and is likely supportive of creative projects like this.
Is caffeine explosive or did you mean to type some other word instead?
It’s been four years so my memory might be faulty but if I remember right it was caffeine. Normal dosage of caffeine that Wikipedia lists is 500 milligram.
For obvious reasons the part where he allegedly spoke about it isn’t in the video. I allegedly told the audience that he will demonstrate the explosive capabilities of the substance later that day. Unfortunately there was some official of some agency in the audience that didn’t find this funny and who then walked around with recording equipment to record any further word that Sai said, so Sai didn’t go into further details.
It’s illegal to carry something on a plane that can blow up the plane but obviously TSA rules can’t check for every possible substance that’s explosive. The idea that fluids are the only thing that’s explosive is obviously also mistaken. Disclosing security vulnerabilities is very much in the spirit of the Chaos Computer Congress. So it was the substance he choose when they illegally forbid his fruit juice (and he sued them for not allowing him fruit juice with he carries with him for health reasons, a bit later)
Sai once gave a talk advertising LessWrong at the Chaos Computer Congress (CCC) in Berlin.
At the flight to Berlin he just boarded the plane with fruit juice. He got it on the fruit by declaring it as a medical drug that he needs to keep his glucose level up. He said he knew the TSA rules better than the TSA folks. Then he asked how he can listen to the cockpit radio and got kicked out.
He took the next plane and allegedly took undetected enough pure caffeine with him to blow up the plane and allegedly told the crowd at the CCC about it which was probably a dumb move.
While he’s no lawyer by trade, I think he knows very well to navigate the rules and is likely supportive of creative projects like this.
Is caffeine explosive or did you mean to type some other word instead?
It’s been four years so my memory might be faulty but if I remember right it was caffeine. Normal dosage of caffeine that Wikipedia lists is 500 milligram.
For obvious reasons the part where he allegedly spoke about it isn’t in the video. I allegedly told the audience that he will demonstrate the explosive capabilities of the substance later that day. Unfortunately there was some official of some agency in the audience that didn’t find this funny and who then walked around with recording equipment to record any further word that Sai said, so Sai didn’t go into further details.
It’s illegal to carry something on a plane that can blow up the plane but obviously TSA rules can’t check for every possible substance that’s explosive. The idea that fluids are the only thing that’s explosive is obviously also mistaken. Disclosing security vulnerabilities is very much in the spirit of the Chaos Computer Congress. So it was the substance he choose when they illegally forbid his fruit juice (and he sued them for not allowing him fruit juice with he carries with him for health reasons, a bit later)
For me Sai was a very impressive character.