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Re: Bloggers Fingered as Possible National Security Threat
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:15:45 -0500
On Jan 31, 2008 11:33 AM, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Paul Ferguson wrote:The laundry list of fictional catastrophes - which include hundreds of people on "No Fly" lists suddenly arriving at airport ticket counters - is significant because it suggests what kind of real-world trouble keeps people in the White House awake at night.For these exercises, part of the scenario is to overload the participants with decoys or distractions, not real threats, to see how well they discard non-threats and focus on what has the highest risk/threat. The entire laundry list probably isn't what keeps people in the White House awake at night. But I guess the scenario designers were doing their job picking distractors based on the uncritical reaction of some people.
They could have saved some effort and just used Schneier's data: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/movieplot_threa_1.html :-) -JP _______________________________________________ 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.
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- Bloggers Fingered as Possible National Security Threat Paul Ferguson (Jan 31)
- Re: Bloggers Fingered as Possible National Security Threat Sean Donelan (Jan 31)
- Re: Bloggers Fingered as Possible National Security Threat Dude VanWinkle (Jan 31)
- Re: Bloggers Fingered as Possible National Security Threat Sean Donelan (Jan 31)