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Terrorism as a Tax

2008-05-12 06:29:47 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...terrorism (54 percent) when considering a trip to the country In Beyond Fear I wrote: Security is a tax on the honest If it werent for attackers, our lives would be a whole lot easier. In a world where everyone was completely honorable and law-abiding all of the time, everything we bought and did would be cheaper. We wouldnt have to pay for...
 
Tags: tax, security, security risks, security countermeasures, security trade-offs, fear tax falls, security lines, beefed-up security forces, percent decline
 
 
 
 
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Rudy Giuliani on Terrorism Security

2008-01-16 14:17:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
A longish article by Rudy Giuliani on his philosophy to secure the nation from terrorism. I may write a long blog post on the article after I read it, but I wanted to post the link as soon as I saw it
 
Tags: rudy giuliani, post, longish article, article, blog post, terrorism, link, nation, philosophy
 
 
 
 
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Schneier Video on Terrorism

2008-04-18 13:30:48 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
On 10 June 2006, I gave a talk on security theater and terrorism to the New Jersey ACLU. Here's the video
 
Tags: video, jersey aclu, security theater, terrorism, talk, june
 
 
 
 
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World's elite hackers warn chains of cyber terrorism threat

2008-04-26 13:31:38 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
High street chains will be the next victims of cyber terrorism, some of the world's elite hackers have warned. Criminals could use the kind of tactics which crippled Estonia's government and some firms last year
 
Tags: elite hackers, cyber terrorism, world, street chains, government, victims, firms, tactics, criminals
 
 
 
 
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Heroin vs. Terrorism

2008-05-01 06:56:21 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...terrorism is unnerving. Government says that there are millions of pounds in police budgets that should be devoted to dealing with organised crime. In truth, only a handful of British police forces know how to tackle it. The ridiculous Victorian patchwork of shire constabularies means that most are too small to tackle serious criminality that...
 
Tags: crime, international crime, crime agency, agency, government intends, soca, government, british police forces, ridiculous victorian patchwork
 
 
 
 
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$13 million grant approved to fight cyber-terrorism

2008-05-13 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b148f8 in Network World on Security
 
Malaysia's Prime Minister has approved a $13 million grant to lay the foundation of IMPACT, a not-for-profit global organization to rally efforts from governments, the private sector and academia worldwide, against the growing threat of cyber-terrorism
 
Tags: million grant, not-for-profit global organization, prime minister, cyber-terrorism, academia worldwide, rally efforts, threat, sector, governments
 
 
 
 
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Fear Is Unhealthy

2008-01-17 07:35:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...terrorism could be taking a toll on the hearts of millions of Americans. The evidence, published last week in the Archives of General Psychiatry, comes from researchers who began tracking the health of a representative sample of more than 2,700 Americans before September 2001. After the attacks of Sept. 11, the scientists monitored peoples...
 
Tags: people terrorists kill, terrorists, terrorism, actual terrorism, kill, people, fear, million people, fearful people
 
 
 
 
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Al Qaeda Threat Overrated

2008-05-07 12:56:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Terrorism is not about standing armies, mass movements, riots in the streets or even palace coups. It's about tiny groups that want to make a big bang. So you keep tracking cells and potential cells, and when you find them you destroy them. After Spanish police cornered leading members of the group that attacked trains in Madrid in 2004, they...
 
Tags: sheehan, sheehan writes, qaeda, terrorist cell capable, terrorism, cell, defeat terrorism, attack, attack tomorrow
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...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 common: The defendants posed little if any demonstrable threat to anyone or anything. According to a study by the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law, only ten percent...
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents
 
 
 
 
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Two Studies on Security Spending

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2008-03-27 01:37:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...Terrorism , [.pdf]) by The Copenhagen Consensus , a think tank that analyzes government spending. The Economist says The authors of the study calculate that worldwide spending on homeland security has risen since 2001 by between $65 billion (if security is narrowly defined) and over $200 billion a year (if one includes the Iraq and Afghan...
 
Tags: security, cyber-security resources, security breaches, track security performance, service, secureworks siem service, secureworks, security program, in-house 24x7 security