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While I don't think it's a good idea to show up to an airport or any high-security area with circuitry strapped to one's chest, it bothers me that the media is so freely calling this latest incident a "bomb hoax." Doesn't the word "hoax" entail some knowledge about the intentions of the doer? The most probable explanation is that these were the actions of a socially-clueless MIT geek who wears her circuitry art wherever she goes, although I guess you can't expect a security officer to grasp that on sight. (15) #
9/21/2007

Computer security expert Bruce Schneier writes about what last week's foiled terrorist plot and the reaction to it says about the state of airport security:

Security measures that require us to guess correctly don't work, because invariably we will guess wrong. It's not security, it's security theater: measures designed to make us feel safer but not actually safer.
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8/14/2006