If you're innocent, why should you worry?

[Crazed Rabbit]

That was tried at Glasgow, and was then used an an excuse for the airport to charge people extortionate amounts of money for using the short term stay car-park.

I bet the next big attack will be on a train. There are no security restrictions on using trains, and it's easier to carry a backpack aboard one than it is to carry a matchbox on to a plane.

You don't have to pass any restrictions to get to the security line, which, thanks to our security measures, have large amounts of people stuffed together.

That terrorists haven't tried that suggests some things; either they're stupid, or they want to go for the symbolic attack, or they can't get people and explosives into our country easily.

Oh yeah, the no fly list doesn't work either if the terrorist can steal/obtain a credit card from a person not on the watch list.

CR

[HoreTore]

You don't have to pass any restrictions to get to the security line, which, thanks to our security measures, have large amounts of people stuffed together.

That terrorists haven't tried that suggests some things; either they're stupid, or they want to go for the symbolic attack, or they can't get people and explosives into our country easily.

I'm willing to bet that it'll happen within the next two years.

Any takers?

[Subotan]

It already happened, three years ago.
It's just a matter of time before it happenes again

[drone]

It already happened, three years ago.
It's just a matter of time before it happenes again

That's not the same. At many airports, the tensa-barrier lines at airport security easily have 200-300 people within a 50-foot radius of the center. I am very surprised this hasn't been targeted, since it would be a) bloody and b)severely disrupting. It would shut down the commercial air industry in the US for a long time and probably bankrupt it.

If the TSA was truly on the ball, they would be trying to eliminate these dangerous situations. A positive side-effect would be faster processing through the airport. Instead, it's all theater.

[HoreTore]

It already happened, three years ago.
It's just a matter of time before it happenes again

As Drone said, it's not the same. That was simply a half-arsed way of attacking the airport itself, not detonating a bag full of explosives in the security line....

[Ser Clegane]

There was an interesting article on airport security measures in this week's Der Spiegel

Are Traditional Security Methods the Best Path to Air Safety?

Rather long but worth the read IMHO.