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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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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

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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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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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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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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...plotters and entrapping them, to make the world seem scarier. Since then, it's been on my list of topics to write about someday Rolling Stone has this excellent article on the topic, about the Joint Terrorism Task Forces in the U.S.: But a closer inspection of the cases brought by JTTFs reveals that most of the prosecutions had one thing in...
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents
 
 
 
 
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Measuring Vulnerability

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2008-04-14 14:31:38 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...plot a similar distribution for tornado wind speeds (black curve below). This distribution reflects the fact that wind speeds vary from tornado to tornado, ranging from under 100 MPH to over 300 MPH, with most falling in the 200 MPH range. (Keep in mind this is just an illustration and isnt intended to reflect actual tornado data In order to...
 
Tags: threat capability curve, capability, human capability, human threat capability, describe control strength, control strength, capability curve, threat community capability, control
 
 
 
 
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Heroes, the (Fall TV) Legacy

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2007-09-25 00:00:26 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...plot) in the current time Reaper - Tuesday 9pm / CW - What if your parents sold your soul to the devil before you were born? I think its a comedy Pushing Daisies - Wednesday 8pm / ABC - Ned can bring folks back to life with a touch. Of course, the downside is a second touch sends them back the embrace of death. While teaming with a detective,...
 
Tags: heroes, heroes success, legacy, detective, undead detective mick, touch, nbc, time, touch sends
 
 
 
 
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MySpace and U.S. Attorneys General Agree to Fight Sexual Predators

2008-01-17 13:12:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...plot threat. But we humans have a well-established cognitive bias that overestimates threats against our children, so it all makes sense
 
Tags: myspace, child predators, stop child predators, attorneys, sexual predators, movie-plot threat, tiny handful, security theater, cognitive bias
 
 
 
 
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Anti-Missile Technology on Commercial Aircraft

2008-01-18 11:29:06 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...plot threat. Two, given that that's true, attaching an empty box to the belly of the plane and writing "Laser Anti-Missile System" on it would be just as effective a deterrent at a fraction of the cost. And three, how do we know that's not what they're doing More news here
 
Tags: missile, anti-missile technology, technology, missile attack, laser anti-missile system, attack, american airlines jets, protect commercial planes, laser beam