Cost vs benefit. What was the value of the items stolen? What is the value of items stolen over time? How much do you need to spend to try and stop it? At some point you start getting deminishing returns. The more you want to stop people getting through the more it will cost. Keeping in mind that there are multiple threats that we are trying to defeat the costs and inconvenience can go up markedly and still there is a chance someone who is determined and can put a plan together will get through.
The second question 'after how did this happen?' is 'do we really need to do anything more to stop it or do we put it down to the price of doing business?'
I'm not saying that we should accept this sort of thing at a moral level but we already put up with stupid and ineffective measures that make our lives that much worse on a daily basis in the name of 'security'. Lets not have a knee jerk reaction and spend lots of money making life worse but no harder for the committed thief.
Last edited by Roger Greendeck; 21st Feb 2013 at 01:46.