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by Zigurd 4362 days ago
"Bomb scanners" are really density scanners. If someone were able to make explosives that worked but were not the same density and known explosives, they would not have to hide them in batteries. The x-ray machines would not "see" them no matter how they were packed.

As other people have pointed out, the only use this order has is to prevent uncharged batteries from stopping the inspection of the data on a device.