Counterterrorism in Airports

Crypto-Gram: May 15, 2004 contains a short section on some new security measures that are being tested in US airports using, shock, well trained security guards! A much more effective measure than all the dumb stuff they have done so far, such as easily faked fingerprint scanners removing all possible sharp things, even if there is no possiblility of using them as a weapon, but of course matches, as used by the Shoe Bomber are fine, and of course installing Perv-O-Vision to keep the (poorly trained and paid) security guards interested.