tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post4656396878710972269..comments2024-01-25T14:51:13.377-05:00Comments on Gamso - For the Defense: Preventing the last warJeff Gamsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09869425697771419546noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post-45541529274246216082010-01-05T18:18:08.560-05:002010-01-05T18:18:08.560-05:00Schneier is terrific on this stuff. His work info...Schneier is terrific on this stuff. His work informs much of my thinking on these issues.Jeff Gamsohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09869425697771419546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post-23989883580968059112010-01-05T16:22:35.583-05:002010-01-05T16:22:35.583-05:00Bruce Schneier writes about this at: http://www.cn...Bruce Schneier writes about this at: http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/29/schneier.air.travel.security.theater/index.html<br /><br />"Our current response to terrorism is a form of "magical thinking." It relies on the idea that we can somehow make ourselves safer by protecting against what the terrorists happened to do last time."<br /><br />"The best defenses against terrorism are largely invisible: investigation, intelligence, and emergency response. But even these are less effective at keeping us safe than our social and political policies, both at home and abroad. However, our elected leaders don't think this way: They are far more likely to implement security theater against movie-plot threats."<br /><br />and best of all:<br /><br />"We'd do much better by leveraging the inherent strengths of our modern democracies and the natural advantages we have over the terrorists: our adaptability and survivability, our international network of laws and law enforcement, and the freedoms and liberties that make our society so enviable.<br /><br />The way we live is open enough to make terrorists rare; we are observant enough to prevent most of the terrorist plots that exist, and indomitable enough to survive the even fewer terrorist plots that actually succeed. We don't need to pretend otherwise."Martin Buddenhttp://martinbudden.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post-1631419293126151872009-12-28T07:56:48.590-05:002009-12-28T07:56:48.590-05:00You're right and this is great commentary. Bu...You're right and this is great commentary. But two things bother me. 1. Are none of the people in charge of making the rules smart enough to see how dumb the rules they are making are, like you and I can? 2. Not to worry. The airlines won't go bust because the weak, lemming-like public will simply follow and adjust to any new rule the government creates, just like they always do "in the interest of their safety."Paladin51https://www.blogger.com/profile/08222113081973333613noreply@blogger.com