The TSA has yet to fully raise the prohibition of liquids on planes. Speculate that the reason is because government scientists have secretly discovered how to build and deploy a reliable, destructive, binary-liquid-explosive bomb. This is in contrast to earlier reports of how difficult it is to properly mix highly concentrated peroxide and fuel say in an aircraft lavatory without it prematurely exploding (causing relatively little damage) or catching fire (also causing relatively little damage).
If true, both government scientists and anyone else who has independently succeeded have kept silent (perhaps forced to?). It points to the standard conundrum of open science: even though the result could be used for evil, it also means there is a very non-obvious, highly sought-after scientific result that is being withheld. There are many legitimate chemists and chemical engineers working on things very different from terrorism, like curing cancer, who seek methods of mixing things without them immediately exploding.
However, taking the refusal to lift the ban as positive information (1 bit), can you derive the secret method? Merely knowing it is possible is often tremendously useful.
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