Airport security

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-17-airport-security_N.htm?csp=34

I'm not a big fan of airport security, but it looks like there's little incentive to make it a government industry. For one thing, it's quite harder to get rid of idiot morons who can't tell a bowling ball candle from a bomb. "What's that a hair dryer with a scope on it? That looks ok, keep it moving." For another, private industry has every incentive in this case to do their jobs as efficiently and diligently as possible. For example, let's suppose a bomb or other threat gets onboard a plane, it's pretty bad credibility for safety on the planes that company screens. The company is likely to get fired and replaced. We cannot fire and replace the government bureaucrats regardless if their incompetence is shown to contribute to an incident.

Now as far as I'm concerned, we need less screening and security at the airport with bags and such, the chances of a hijacking or bombing is almost zero. Worry more about the plane crashing (thank you media for reporting every sensational airplane crash and virtually ignoring millions of drunk drivers). Most of the screening should go on behind the scenes. It seems to me that doing things which target potential threats by skimming over background information is more efficient than rummaging through a family's bags while they're on the way to visit grandparents, for example.