"Five undercover agents of the US Department of Homeland Security posing as passengers last week carried weapons through several security checkpoints at Logan International Airport without being detected, officials confirmed yesterday.

[...]

[A] source who works in security at Logan said the undercover agents, who work for the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, brought knives, a bomb, and a gun in carry-on baggage through several checkpoints at different terminals without being stopped.

A pocket knife set off alarms at one checkpoint, the source said. It was concealed inside an agent's pants, hanging by a string behind his zipper. The screeners wrongly believed it was the zipper that had set off the alarms."

Great. Thousands of people are forced to break the nail files off their clippers every day, and these retards can't even spot a gun!?

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2003/10/16/logan_screeners_fail_weapons_tests/

In related news, I just bought this and this. No way am I making it through security unharassed.