Security is a joke, especially when they're so busy confiscating your nail clippers, they let everything else in the average woman's beauty bag through, including things that could do a heck of a lot more damage than bloody nail clippers!!! (Obviously I won't say what, but it's not too hard to see how 'tunnel-visioned' these 'procedures' are)...
Again, I'm afraid it's more for show for the travelling public than any 'real' method of preventing 'dangerous' objects onto aircraft... unless of course, they are playing us all and they really get into stuff behind the scenes... maybe it is all just a ploy to make everyone think airport security is crap..?
Now, where's that article about the captain and the crash axe vs airport security...?