The Pointlessness of Profiling the Stuff Instead of the People

The way it works is that the crazy wannbe airplane-downers/shahids are always going to be one step ahead of us and airport security. That's why profiling the stuff--the shoes, the shampoo bottles, the undies (the latest ones have no metal parts and can thus foil current detection methods)--is a mug's game.

And we're the mugs.