Things like the TSA are great illustrations of the pervasiveness of the surveillance-industrial complex at the beginning of this decade. Security doesn't need

Things like the TSA are great illustrations of the pervasiveness of the surveillance-industrial complex at the beginning of this decade. Security doesn't need to be a motivating factor, merely sufficient justification - after that things like back scatter body scanners, procedures that require more security staff and any other product or innovation the SIC comes up with can be shoehorned in. They've worked out they can make money off of people's fear, and there's a neat little feedback loop where more security makes people more paranoid, more afraid leading to more security. Good business, if you can get it.