-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 10:01 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- On Sat, 12/26/09, Buhrmaster, Gary <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And that rule is that passengers (and crew) will no longer >> sit quietly when threatened. > > The attack model has changed. Getting up and saying "Everyone stay in > your seats!" is a non-starter, no-one is hijacking a plane again. > > The fact is that this loser would have succeeded if he had built his bomb > better. Security will/should adjust to try to the threat - expect more > sensors and sniffers and more attention on information management. > > But messaging is more important than actual security. People have to > remember that as of now you remain more likely to die in an airplane > *accident* than you do in an extremist attack, and in any case you are > more likely to be struck by a passing car while crossing the street. > It's like getting network security to the point where a bad power supply > is a bigger threat. > > Terrorism isn't about results, it's about sowing FUD. The best sign in > my eyes is that CNN covered a college football coach quitting today > instead of spending the entire day on this story. And the Iranian > protests, too - now there's a much more significant story. > Schneier: "Only one carry on? No electronics for the first hour of flight? I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only foil by upgrading the passengers to first glass [sic] and giving them free drinks." http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/separating_expl.html I love that. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFLNwL8q1pz9mNUZTMRAj+cAJ9yoUztJEVbMzo3lrd+IHZXDkdyiQCgsiQK xHYWYu43oy8xmQsbrnsO9Ww= =rxMT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ 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.
