Quote Originally Posted by mbeige View Post
Wife ko dati she always opened her bag to show the guards. Minsan nga tingin lang tapos ayus na. I told her you don't have to do that all the time, dahil to them it's routine work. Ngayon she just walks through and only opens her bag when they ask her to.

Goes to show their effectiveness. Sadly, if somebody was planning something evil right now, they would have been able to do it despite all this.
Deterrent daw... pretty pointless actually, because everyone knows it's easy to get past this "security". Anyway, even if security was really tight, there will still be ways to bomb a mall/plane/train/bus, so it's not like it actually affects the rate of stuff being blown up.