@romkramer88:

The best thing you can do is to stop thinking about security on board aircraft. If you keep this up, you'll drive yourself nuts.

Here are the simple facts:
- TSA only provides security theater. No real guarantee of protection is provided by them. Heck, some of them are even criminals themselves as evidenced by news stories that many of the posts in this forum link to.

- Governments and their organizations (TSA, FBI, etc., etc.) only operate in reactive mode. Even if you had noticed a real threat, no matter how simple the solution it would not have been implemented until at least one airliner was destroyed by it. Agencies seem to only consider threats to be credible after someone acts upon them.

- While it is very nobile of you to be concerned about things, making suggestions like this to the government will result in no good. You may draw extra attention to yourself that you probably wouldn't want. Even worse, suggestions of the nature that you made might serve to make flying less convenient for thousands by providing yet another "reason" for gate harassment and searches for anyone and everyone flying to the US. This won't result in stopping terrorists; it will just cause them to slightly alter their MO.

Life is much better when you stop worrying about every little detail and just sit back, relax, and enjoy yourself. This doesn't mean that you don't go in to things prepared and remain vigilant-- there's a big difference between looking out for yourself and providing governments with yet another reason to grope us and paw through our belongings "for our own security"...