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Third Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest

2008-04-07 15:50:38 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Plot Threat Contest. Well, better late than never For this contest, the goal is to create fear. Not just any fear, but a fear that you can alleviate through the sale of your new product idea. There are lots of risks out there, some of them serious, some of them so unlikely that we shouldn't worry about them, and some of them completely made...
 
Tags: movie-plot threat, annual movie-plot threat, criminal risk, risk, common household risk, product idea, product, terrorism risk, entries
 
 
 
 
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Movie Plot Threats in The Guardian

2008-09-04 05:56:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...plot threats, rather than the real, broad threats. In the US during the months after the 9/11 attacks, we feared terrorists with scuba gear, terrorists with crop dusters and terrorists contaminating our milk supply. Both the UK and the US fear terrorists with small bottles of liquid. Our imaginations run wild with vivid specific threats....
 
Tags: terrorists bomb, bomb, threats, terrorists, terrorists attack wimbledon, specific targets, security, targets, security follies
 
 
 
 
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The Pentagon's World of Warcraft Movie-Plot Threat

2008-09-18 13:29:12 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...plot threat contest entries, a Pentagon researcher is worried that terrorists might plot using World of Warcraft: In a presentation late last week at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Conference in Washington, Dr. Dwight Toavs, a professor at the Pentagon-funded National Defense University, gave a bit of a primer on virtual...
 
Tags: world, warcraft, plot, play world, warcraft players discuss, movie-plot threat, online world, meatspace plot, dragon fire
 
 
 
 
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Third Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner

2008-05-15 06:24:06 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Plot Threat Contest: For this contest, the goal is to create fear. Not just any fear, but a fear that you can alleviate through the sale of your new product idea. There are lots of risks out there, some of them serious, some of them so unlikely that we shouldn't worry about them, and some of them completely made up. And there are lots of...
 
Tags: health risk, risk, criminal risk, toothpaste immediately, toothpaste, common household risk, toothpaste test strips, annual movie-plot threat, terrorism risk
 
 
 
 
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Coming Soon to a Movie Plot Near You

The Article has images
2008-07-31 21:10:38 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
...plot is imminent. It would have been pretty simple to use two balloons to block the camera without providing the nice tether to fix the problem Digital photography is a hobby of mine, and I have a mild obsession for photographing physical security faux pas (which to date has not resulted in any Imperial Entanglements ). So I am going to use...
 
Tags: video surveillance camera, camera, video surveillance, movie plot, video, photo, lamsons photo, security camera, simple
 
 
 
 
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Extortion Plot Threatens to Divulge Millions of Patients' Prescriptions

2008-11-06 23:48:00 by David Kravets in Wired Security
 
A St. Louis company managing medical prescriptions of 50 million people says it has alerted the FBI of an extortion plot threatening to divulge the names and prescriptions of millions of its clients. Express Scripts says it received a letter announcing the plot, which seeks an undisclosed amount of money
 
Tags: extortion plot, prescriptions, plot, medical prescriptions, express scripts, millions, divulge, million people, louis company
 
 
 
 
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Third Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest Semi-Finalists

2008-05-07 14:33:13 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Plot Threat Contest: For this contest, the goal is to create fear. Not just any fear, but a fear that you can alleviate through the sale of your new product idea. There are lots of risks out there, some of them serious, some of them so unlikely that we shouldn't worry about them, and some of them completely made up. And there are lots of...
 
Tags: risk, criminal risk, common household risk, annual movie-plot threat, terrorism risk, product idea, product, fear, toothpaste test strips
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Researcher Unveils Warcraft Terror Plot

2008-09-15 23:22:00 by Noah Shachtman in Wired Security
 
The American military and intelligence communities are increasingly worried that would-be bin Ladens might gather in a virtual world, to plan a real-life attack. Now, a Pentagon researcher has laid out how such a terror plot might unfold. The planning ground is World of Warcraft. The main target of this possibly-nuclear strike: the White House
 
Tags: pentagon researcher, terror plot, world, would-be bin ladens, virtual world, real-life attack, main target, white house, warcraft
 
 
 
 
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The War on Photography

2008-06-05 06:44:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...plots that the US government likes to talk about -- the Ft. Dix terrorists, the JFK airport bombers, the Miami 7, the Lackawanna 6 -- no photography Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don't seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Why are our...
 
Tags: movie, movie-plot security, terrorists, imagine terrorists, terrorists bomb, movie-plot terrorists, dix terrorists, movie-plot threats uniquely, wannabe terrorists
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: Airport Pasta-Sauce Interdiction Considered Harmful

2008-09-18 18:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...plot on getting a gun through airport security if there's decent chance of getting caught, because the consequences of getting caught are too great Contrast that with a terrorist plot that requires a 12-ounce bottle of liquid. There's no evidence that the London liquid bombers actually had a workable plot, but assume for the moment they did....