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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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Security Matters: The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-02 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...terrorists in the first place. If we're ever going to defeat terrorism, we need to understand what drives people to become terrorists in the first place Conventional wisdom holds that terrorism is inherently political, and that people become terrorists for political reasons. This is the "strategic" model of terrorism, and it's basically an...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-07 05:48:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...terrorists in the first place. If we're ever going to defeat terrorism, we need to understand what drives people to become terrorists in the first place Conventional wisdom holds that terrorism is inherently political, and that people become terrorists for political reasons. This is the "strategic" model of terrorism, and it's basically an...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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Terrorist Fear Mongering Seems to be Working Less Well

2008-10-15 07:07:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...terrorists may bring flammable liquids on board. Yet that is exactly what BART managers said No big news -- we've seen stupid things like this regularly since 9/11 -- but this time people responded : Added Director Tom Radulovich, "If somebody wants to break the law and bring flammable liquids on, they can. It's not like al Qaeda is waiting...
 
Tags: bart, bart managers, flammable liquids, director tom radulovich, bart administrators, sippy-cup rule, time people, passengers, law
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists