I thought that the security checks whereby you had to be vetted before being allowed to check in had been done away with? Am I wrong?

I suppose that post-Locherbie anything that it is out of place will raise pulses. I suppose that despite the inconvenience, I would rather that there was security. Have any of you ever been through metal detectors at the airport (which is an open invitation to having one's baggage stolen) and really wondered about the capability of the people working there. Have you, ever found subsequently found that quite inadvertantly you had an item (mobile phone) about you that should have set the thing off and it didn't. Fills you with confidence doesn't it?!