Nonsense! Having had my nail clipper and toothpaste tube confiscated, I get on board and pick up my crash-axe! Where is the sense in that? Is there any need to stop me having a 'shoe bomb swap' when I have the very fate of the aircraft in my own hands anyway? there is no sense in it. Any security expended on the pilots is security wasted, and it would be better spent targeting those more likely to be terrorists- the passengers! The only possible pilot 'suiciders' used no weapons or devices- they used their bare hands. No security (as in today's idea of 'security') would have succeeded in stopping them. Confiscating keys, scissors, nail files, tins of shaving foam, toothpaste, yoghurt, bottles of water, crew meals- all a complete waste of time. But it gives a lot of people a job and a nice self-perpetuating career.