As for the shopkeepers, all are very subdued in fact you can walk around with hardly any hassle. Unheard of in Sharm before.
Rebuilding work is progressing at a fast speed. The mentality seems to be get is all rebuilt and back to normal and hope people will forget what happened.

There do seem to be some extra security measures planned in the form of drive through X ray machines for cars, but with poor security at the airport and the whole place open to the desert I don't think it will ever be possible to make Sharm 100% safe.

I would just like to add the Egyptian authorities have completely falsified the numbers killed in an attempt to play down the severity of what happened. Tourists are still missing an unaccounted for, the numbers killed are in the hundreds and not what has been reported by the police.

Yes, my country is considerably safer of course but this just due to the fact that it is basically locked for anyone arriving from east or south. Which also does not seem like viable solution in the long run, though I've heard that Swiss watches are so goos as they are exaclty because the people in this also small country have for so long married just between themselves that their minds have degraded into the state where peaceful sitting at a table putting some small details into palces where you are instructed to put them, is a very suitable occupation.
(If is not true then must be simple envy, but anyway, you get the point)

Desert.... indeed. Maybe we need cooperation from camels then, because on the other hand the explosive components are a rather heavy material, you do not carry them on your back or maybe you do if are fanatic. In any case if we have GPS system sin the world where you can steer or find an exploration machine from a satellite, it should not be so difficult to organise a sattellite guardline. Again, must take measures to differentiate between people and camels though the latter maybe don't roam around on own errands probably.

Whatever info is given, don't know if true or not, but from the propagandistic viewpoint I think to avoid panic is almost more important than tell the truth. One can start telling the truth after one has first raised these people who can accept truth, and we can observe based on ES here what the rate of such people is yet. Unless you are a security analytic then what was does not in any way (or very little) help predict what will happen next.

Of course, would be so much easier for security people work if noone came to Sharm. In times like this I guess any added person is an added problem but what can you do? Still, there must be solutions. Like e.g. why not close Sinai for muslims and operate is just as Egypt's cash-cow, letting your copts or other non-fundamentalist non-aggressive people from Egypt or other countries perform all work and hospitality?? You can still pocket all profit and even share it with muslims in mainland Egypt! Would be kind of reverse process to what happened when the Western gigants like British Oil etc went "in" historically and milked and milked...