Let us put it this way. I think security theater is dumb. But bruce moves to
the opposite extent .. his arguing that all this is solely caused by
groupthink of the sort that drives inner city kids into gangs is missing the
forest for the trees.
srs
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> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 10:41 PM
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> Subject: Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists
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>
> "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Generally speaking, if he was talking about IT security, fine -
> > though even there there's a bit of a libertarian colored view
>
> Bruce is not a libertarian (though I am).
>
> > of things that might lead to a slightly divergent version of reality
> > than mine.. valid points all the same.
> >
> > When he does this kind of excursus into anti terror and such, well,
> > I tend to disagree.
>
> So what exactly do you disagree with? You believe that searching
> people for shampoo before letting them on airplanes is of critical
> importance to society? You think randomly assembled "watch lists" of
> names with millions of entries helps us "catch terrorists"? What is it
> exactly that makes sense here?
>
> Most of the security theater these days is equine intestinal
> discharge. It has no connection with actual production of security.
>
> Perry
