Originally Posted by
skipness1E
The UK is a terrorist target and we have to take security seriously. I have travelled through a number of major airports where the screeners don't even look at the xray machines. It's theatre, just a different style from UK.
The objective of terrorism is to terrorize, so security theatre makes sense to reassure people. There are very few terror attacks, and damage resulting is generally low, so it is hard to rationalize spending even more than the billions of dollars already spent on screening.
There is a good article here:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archiv...ssing_air.html