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Toddos :- "Your assumption that "something needs to be done" is what I question. Smarter experts than me (look up Bruce Schneier and Security Theater, for example) have covered this way better than I ever could, but suffice it to say that a terrorist attack has never been caught at the security check-in line or on a plane, and never will. They get caught because of all the behind-the-scenes detective work that agencies like the CIA, FBI, Interpol, etc do, and not from Joe T. Worker grouping your genitals and taking nudie pictures of your grandma/child, and not by any flight attendant asking you to turn off your electronic devices."
I don't recall saying "something needs to done" - but I agree, because the thought of going through all the rigmarole at its present level, is not very exciting.
And you may be right about noone ever being caught/prevented prior to boarding - although the shoe bomb guy would be stopped now, I believe - but we are not necessarily likely to know, are we - especially if broadcasting the details gives info to those that might try it again.
And saying "... and never will..." is a hostage to fortune as any I've heard !
But, here in the UK we have had considerable experience with terrorist attacks of all kinds, over many years, and will never forget one rather chilling statement that makes the point of these checks fairly clear, and that must of necessity bear on the present situation.
It was issued by the IRA after the attack on Downing Street some years ago - "you have to get it right every time, we only have to get it right once...."
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