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In Next-Gen Bullets and Bombs, Even the Casing Explodes

2008-05-07 01:00:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
...bombs, warheads that tear apart stone and concrete, mines that can be set to stun or kill, and grenades that can swat rockets or mortar rounds out of the sky like flies You can get effects that are more precisely tailored to a particular target," says John Pike, director of Washington military research group GlobalSecurity.org . "And you're...
 
Tags: amounts, release explosive amounts, release, metal, hollow metal cone, explosive, energy, reliably release energy, metal liner
 
 
 
 
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Would-Be Bomber Caught at Orlando Airport

2008-04-03 09:02:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bombs in Jamaica. It also indicated he wanted to show friends how to make pipe bombs like he made while in Iraq Federal agents said federal agents found two vodka bottles filled with nitro-methane, a highly explosive liquid, as well as galvanized pipes, end caps with holes, BBs, a model-rocket igniter, AA batteries, a lighter and lighter...
 
Tags: tsa, apparent tsa wins, tsa claims, brown, kevin brown, pipe bombs, orlando airport, terrorist, highly explosive liquid
 
 
 
 
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Snipers

2008-12-16 06:25:07 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bombs at least twice a day. Almost every week in Afghanistan and Iraq right now, such bombs are dropped. The nature of heavy ordnance being what it is, these bombs kill and maim not just their targets (assuming there is a correctly-located target) but everyone else around. Civilian deaths in air strikes are becoming a massive issue for NATO...
 
Tags: snipers, people, bomber people, sixty snipers, bombs kill, bombs, class snipers kill, sixty people, sniper
 
 
 
 
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Al Qaeda Threat Overrated

2008-05-07 12:56:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bombs and pieces of the suicide bomberstracked down Dr. Azahari bin Husin, "the Demolition Man," and the little group around him. In a November 2005 shootout the cops killed Dr. Azahari and crushed his cell. After that such attacks in Indonesia stopped The drive to obliterate the remaining hives of Al Qaeda training activity along the...
 
Tags: sheehan, sheehan writes, qaeda, terrorist cell capable, terrorism, cell, defeat terrorism, attack, attack tomorrow
 
 
 
 
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TSA Proud of Confiscating Non-Dangerous Item

2008-07-30 06:11:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bombs that are prohibited; it's things that look like bombs. This looks enough like a bomb to fool the other passengers, and that in itself is a threat Okay, that's fair. But the average person doesn't know what a bomb looks like; all he knows is what he sees on television and the movies. And this rule means that all homemade electronics are...
 
Tags: fake bomb, bomb, dangerous, homemade, homemade electronics, tsa, suspicious item, battery pack, passengers
 
 
 
 
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The Motivation Behind Adaptive Analytics and CEP

2008-10-11 13:15:26 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Bombs and Countermeasures: Cyber Attacks on Availability and Brand Integrity, IEEE Network Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 10-17, March/April 1998 . In addition, this attackand countermeasures I designed was featured in Popular Science Magazine in an 1998 article, War.Com and other news channels. I also published a number of related papers on...
 
Tags: systems, intrusion detection systems, rule-bases systems, transaction- based systems, cep, real-time detection, real-time, complex event, countermeasures
 
 
 
 
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Clever Counterterrorism Tactic

2008-10-13 13:22:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bombs and where they were being manufactured. One bright fellow recommended they operate a laundry and when asked "what the hell he was talking about," he explained the plan and it was incorporated -- to much success The plan was simple: Build a laundry and staff it with locals and a few of their own. The laundry would then send out "color...
 
Tags: laundry, laundry simply, laundry equipment, laundry mat sic, color coded, coded, bomb residue, opsec operational security, city
 
 
 
 
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The bad guys will use BitLocker, too

2007-07-13 18:03:36 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...bombs. What a bunch of nonsense this is. Communications tools are far more beneficial to the millions of good guys who use them every day (perhaps to save lives?) than to the few bad guys who also use them. Why destroy beneficial utility for everyone just because someone might misuse the technology Encryption is amoral. Good guys will use it,...
 
Tags: bad guys, guys, law enforcement, beneficial, bitlocker, destroy beneficial utility, conduct forensic analysis, technology, bypass
 
 
 
 
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DRM Scorecard Makes Me Wonder: The Media Industry and the TSA, Sadistic or Incompetent?

2007-08-02 08:19:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...bombs and they just go with it. The terrorist can still strap whatever they need to their leg, just not their shoes We installed rootkits on peoples PC without their knowledge We banned water and baby food We sue the people who love our products the most We detain babies Wedamn you! Stop playing the baby card, thats not fair
 
Tags: media industry, industry, media industry views, illogical behavior impedes, drm, behavior, drm scorecard, secret, secret internal referendum
 
 
 
 
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How Well "See Something, Say Something" Actually Works

2008-01-08 07:53:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bombs There were, however, 816 calls to the hot line in 2006 that were deemed serious enough to require investigation by the department's intelligence division or its joint terrorism task force with the F.B.I. Mr. Browne said that 109 of those calls had a connection to the transit system and included reports of suspicious people in tunnels...
 
Tags: line, front-line security personnel, calls, hot line, calls led, people, suspicious people, browne, normal people