CNN is reporting a newly discovered “weak link” in airport security. The sad thing is that this is going to shock most of the people I know, who don’t seem to realize that the only weapon you need to take down airport security is, criministically speaking, an inkjet printer. If you say anything that threatens their confidence, they mumble something about how many cameras airports have—so at least if something goes wrong, the news will have footage.

Today I asked myself, as I have so many times before, what does airport security look like through the rose-colored glasses of these blindly optimistic?