That’s cool and all, but they fail to detect weapons all the time. Just because airport security has never been good doesn’t mean we can’t be critical of them now. They constantly implement new procedures that just plain don’t work beyond making air travel an even bigger hassle. I don’t think Lemmy users are big on privatization ever, and no one suggested that, but this kind of failure is a pretty big deal. Our demise is still an acceptable risk, except now it’s because they hire people who don’t give one single rat’s ass, pay them poorly, and use all kinds of things that look great on the surface but aren’t effective at preventing a guy from bringing a butcher knife into the airport (at what’s usually a pretty slow time of night) and very nearly succeeding at murdering someone.