On Jan 31, 2008 11:33 AM, Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Paul Ferguson wrote: > > The laundry list of fictional catastrophes - which include hundreds of > > people on "No Fly" lists suddenly arriving at airport ticket counters - is > > significant because it suggests what kind of real-world trouble keeps > > people in the White House awake at night. > > For these exercises, part of the scenario is to overload the participants > with decoys or distractions, not real threats, to see how well they > discard non-threats and focus on what has the highest risk/threat. > > The entire laundry list probably isn't what keeps people in the White > House awake at night. But I guess the scenario designers were doing their > job picking distractors based on the uncritical reaction of some people.
They could have saved some effort and just used Schneier's data: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/movieplot_threa_1.html :-) -JP _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
