Category Archives: security theater

Quoth den Beste: Perfect safety is impossible; cope.

Bruce Schneier: My opinion has been that it is largely unnecessary to trade civil liberties for security, and that the best security measures — reinforcing the airplane cockpit door, putting barricades and guards around important buildings, improving authentication for telephone … Continue reading →

Security can be more about power trips than safe travel. Hooray, we cranks are not alone in saying it. (Link from Monty Solomon.)

What Went Wrong, an article about last summer’s Intelligence failure. (Old link dead; two new links) “If I were an average citizen, I’d be pissed at the whole American government,” says a senior official who has worked on counterterrorism. I … Continue reading →