If getting a patdown is the worst indignity you will ever experience in your life, you are lucky.
This is small spuds. I am more concerned with the luggage scanning, which is done.
I do like the idea of severely limiting carry-on luggage. I hate flying with jerks who carry on every single piece of their luggage.
The safest I ever felt flying was when I was in Korea during the Olympics.
The Koreans knew how to run security! Quick, through, and polite. TSA should learn from the Koreans in how to do airline security.