I'm sorry, but this *is* relevant to security: you can either file it under bad social engineering, or really, really stupid ways to deal with an emergency.
Even psychologists can tell you this doesn't work. The way to get people to buy into a risky proposition is to reduce the apparent adverse consequences for the position you want people to take, not to increase the negative effects on the other side. And we know (we have just had yet another example in the United Airlines "old news" case) that the "market" reacts very, very badly to rumours. (No, I'm not interested in the politics of it. It's just brinksmanship of the very worst kind.) http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/09/23/bailout-push.html ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ _______________________________________________ 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.
