It's actually time pilots + crew, security community experts, the airline industry, passengers and even the TSA themselves called out the current security proce

It's actually time pilots + crew, security community experts, the airline industry, passengers and even the TSA themselves called out the current security procedures for the ineffective theater that they are. Aside from the missrepresentation of how effective they are and the cost to resource, the current system is preventing real and meaningful security procedures to be adopted (things like behavior screening, etc). To show how much of a 'theater' it all is, take some of these examples: TSA have never noticed/asked me about the Swiss Tech Utili Key swiss-army knife type thing I carry on my key-chain. I can take an Epipen on board a flight because I have a prescription (I have severe allergies but I'm sure it's easy for anyone to get one) - but if you inject it into the blood stream, esp at the neck, it will kill you (or someone else). Print-at-home boarding passes mean that people who are on watch-lists can buy tickets in a false name and then edit the HTML of the ticket before they print it out to match their state ID. When you enter security the TSA agent never validates your paper-based tickets and ID with the passenger records database so security is by-passed. If bottles of water can't be taken on board because they might be liquid explosive, then why are they tossed into the trash next to the scanner? If they show you on board the plane how to put on a life-vest in the safety demo because they have to assume the worst, then by the same logic they should assume the worst for each bottle and dispose of it accordingly. The very security measures in place create massively dense lines of people at security check-points. These become greater vectors for suicide bombers then the planes themselves. And even these new body scanners create new vectors. People are scanned with them instead of the metal detector which means a terrorist can hold a metal item inside an orifice or body cavity and it not be detected. I support the pilot because I support the need for security at airports and borders - it just needs to be meaningful security that actually catches, and more importantly prevents/discourages, the bad guys.