Land Of The Free
Security guards assault someone for taking pictures of railroad tracks. This goes on all the time. Police and security guards pretend that there is a law against public photography and harass or arrest...
View ArticleRisky Business
Bruce Schneier is beating the risk analysis drum again this time with some help from Famous Author Jared Diamond Diamond: Consider: If you’re a New Guinean living in the forest, and if you adopt the...
View ArticleProfiling The Shooters
William Kiphart makes some interesting points. I wouldn’t call his research proof of anything conclusive, but it’s interesting and I think more work should be done. Two things jump out at me from his...
View ArticleGood Sense
As usual, Bruce Schneier talks good sense. This essay from 2007 that he links to in that post is particularly apt. If you want to do something that makes security sense, figure out what’s common among...
View ArticleNever Say Never Again
“Never again” is a stupid, expensive, and ineffective way to do security. But lots of people like expensive and ineffective things. The best counter-terrorism is still to not be terrorized.
View Article9/11 + 11
In New York, we’ve created a monument to our loss of the War on Terror, a celebration of fear and pointless, oppressive security. News stories everywhere urge us to ‘never forget.’ Here’s the best way...
View ArticleIs What We Fear Most Each Other?
I expect this to be the last thing I have to say about gun control for, I hope, another five or ten years. I’ve written, recently, to try and lay out a few facts about gun control and what we …Read more »
View ArticleWe Won’t Be Fooled Again — Oh, Hell; Yes We Will
Just The Facts Jason Alexander is almost completely wrong. His heart is in the right place, but, I’m sorry, he’s just flat wrong on most of what he says there. The one point he has right is that this...
View ArticleTSA: Broken From The Start
The real problem with the TSA isn’t that they have stupid rules and arbitrary rules that don’t do anything to protect us. The real problem is that that’s the only way they can work. The TSA is focused...
View ArticleWho Pays The Price?
Bruce Schneier, as usual, makes some good points, but I wanted to expand on one thing he says. The people who make the decisions on whether or not to implement some new security law or policy only...
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