This forum as we are repeatedly told - is for 'professional pilots' apart from Jammed Stab and a very few others it seems that there are some 'professional pilots' that have an extremely limited grasp of the measures that professional security staff and military special forces take to keep you safe in the air. The immediate fall back to it must be something political or commercial; yet someone has lost their life find out information on a terrorist attack in the late stages of organization that would probably have resulted in several of your fellows dying. The countermeasures may be clumsy but they will have disrupted the planning of the 'event'. Instead of thanks the majority here seem to have more belief in shallow conspiracy theories. I can only imagine what would have been said in the March before 9/11 if more detailed searches of pax hand baggage and bans on knives and box cutters had been proposed. The same people would presumably have ranted about Bush deliberately trying to break the airline industry.
Believe it or not there are people trying to save your lives and who sometimes lose theirs in the process. They must occasionally wonder why they bother.