Here are a few alternative reasons....
1. A cabin laptop ban will force flyers to put the laptop in the luggage. There it can be
a) intercepted to install a backdoor
b) intercepted to clone the drive (if it takes long the luggage will just be delayed)
2. Flyers that leave their laptop at home will work from the cloud when abroad which can be intercepted
3. Stop flyers from working in-flight and force flyers to watch in flight entertainment out of boredom which can be used for profiling
4. Stop flyers from using laptop based VPN's from abroad
5. Reduce the risk that flyers (hackers) hijack the flight control system and bring the plane down
Biting the hand that feeds IT
