On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Adam Shostack wrote:

> (Changing the rules on a regular basis has some security value, as it
> makes it likely that plans will be ruined.  But it has the cost that
> passengers can't plan..)

Some animals are more equal than others.  It's interesting to look back in
these past few years to see how more and more we've been conditioned to
give up our freedoms.  Fun stuff.  More and more schools being modeled
after jails, kids being kicked out for asprins or for pretending chicken
nuggets are guns, having to wear uniforms, etc.

It's interesting to see how much stuff that was in the interest of
national security being declassified and available after 50 years.  Lots
of cool stuff on the history channel lately.  I wonder what evil will
surface fifty years from now on the history channel about the
present?  (Assuming that we don't actually turn into a dictatorship of
course... grand assumption that.)

> "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
>                                                      -Hume

Except in the case of national security and terrorist acts? Hmmm, we used
to have the four horsemen of the apocalypse.  I guess the horseman of
terror has become the meta-horseman.

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