{"id":1917,"date":"2006-08-15T08:29:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T16:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2006-08-15T08:29:42","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T16:29:42","slug":"security-theater-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1917","title":{"rendered":"security theater kills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2006\/07\/11\/fake-ids-save-lives-in-iraq\/\">Fake identifying documents save lives in Iraq<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> At any time, the relevant authorities in Iraq could have decreed that all people get (as near as possible) forgery-proof biometric ID cards and carry them at all times &#8211; a great way to batten down a country, right?<\/p>\n<p>Doing so would have fed directly into the strategy being used by the enemies of peace and security in Iraq today: setting up fake checkpoints and killing people who arrive there members of the wrong sect.  Identity cards had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preventgenocide.org\/edu\/pastgenocides\/rwanda\/indangamuntu.htm\">role in the Rwandan genocide<\/a> just over 10 years ago, as well. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (Cited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/crypto-gram-0608.html\">Bruce Schneier<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake identifying documents save lives in Iraq: At any time, the relevant authorities in Iraq could have decreed that all people get (as near as possible) forgery-proof biometric ID cards and carry them at all times &#8211; a great way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1917\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}