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Why Some Terrorist Attacks Succeed and Others Fail

2008-02-28 06:25:13 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Terrorist Attacks: Selected Case Studies " (Homeland Security Institute, June 2007), the authors examine eight recent terrorist plots against commercial aviation and passenger rail, and come to some interesting conclusions From the "Executive Summary": The analytic results indicated that the most influential factors determining the success or...
 
Tags: vigilant security services, vigilant, recent terrorist plots, terrorist plots, information fits, information, intelligence information, security services, law enforcement
 
 
 
 
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Latest linking of Senator Obama to a '70's terrorist may damage his reputation.

2008-05-12 00:12:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...terrorist group: Weather Underground Organization (WUO). WUO were opposed to the Vietnam war and pledged to bomb the Capitol, The Pentagon and Police Stations after issuing a "declaration of a state of war" against the United States Government in 1970 These days, Ayers is a professor at UIC. Apparently, Ayers and the Senator have served...
 
Tags: senator, senator obama, william, william ayers, ayers, weather underground, weather underground organization, vietnam war, terrorism
 
 
 
 
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Congratulations to our Millionth Terrorist!

2008-07-16 06:08:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...terrorist watch list has hit one million names . I sure hope we're giving our millionth terrorist a prize of some sort. Who knew that a million people are terrorists. Why, there are only twice as many burglars in the U.S. And fifteen times more terrorists than arsonists . Is this idiotic, or what? Some people are saying fix it , but there...
 
Tags: millionth terrorist, terrorist, million people, people, system, list, career, career incentives, judicial system
 
 
 
 
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Lessons from the Ft. Dix Terrorist Plotters

2008-01-04 06:53:07 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Good article about the Ft. Dix terrorist plotters: the challenges of going after terrorism more proactively, and the risks of using informants I wrote about some of these issues here
 
Tags: dix terrorist plotters, issues, risks, challenges, informants, article, proactively, terrorism
 
 
 
 
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Terrorist Baseball Cards

2007-12-16 23:44:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
Collecting baseball cards used to be a popular pastime of boys growing up in the United States. And in keeping with that tradition, the U.S. Department of Defense has issued a collection of Terrorist Recognition Cards . Click on a region to see who's who (complete with stats) and who's wanted
 
Tags: baseball cards, terrorist recognition cards, popular pastime, department, defense, stats, region, collection, tradition
 
 
 
 
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YouTube declines request to remove terrorist-produced videos

2008-05-22 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b1af3c in Network World on Security
 
YouTube has refused a request from U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) to remove all videos sponsored by terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda, contending that most of them don't violate its community guidelines
 
Tags: videos, remove, youtube, joe lieberman, terrorist organizations, community guidelines, al-qaeda, id-conn
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Terrorist as an Idiot" -- I thought a lot about the government inventing terrorist 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...
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents
 
 
 
 
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The War on Photography

2008-06-05 06:44:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...terrorists, or does everyone just think they are Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harrassed , questioned , detained , arrested or worse , and declared to be unwelcome . We've been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers , especially suspicious ones . Clearly any terrorist is going to...
 
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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Homeland Security Cost-Benefit Analysis

2008-07-17 06:43:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...terrorist targets is essentially infinite. 2. The probability that any individual target will be attacked is essentially zero. 3. If one potential target happens to enjoy a degree of protection, the agile terrorist usually can readily move on to another one. 4. Most targets are "vulnerable" in that it is not very difficult to damage them, but...
 
Tags: potential targets invulnerable, potential targets, targets, protection, invulnerable, protection measures, paper, paper attempts, potential terrorist targets
 
 
 
 
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Terror on the Internet - Conflict of Interest

The Article has images
2008-03-18 19:58:23 by HASH0x8471fd8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...terrorist websites to be removed from their host sites servers or for search engines to block access to them. They also call for laws that would make posting instructions on how to kill or maim people or destroy property punishable by law. Franco Frattini, the European Commissions Vice President for Freedom, Justice, and Security, called for...