Bruce Schneier On Airport Security 582
the4thdimension writes "Bruce Schneier has an opinion piece on CNN this morning that illustrates his view on airport security. Given that he has several books on security, his opinion carries some weight. In the article, Bruce discusses the rarity of terrorism, the pitfalls of security theater, and the actual difficulty surrounding improving security. What are your thoughts? Do you think that we can actually make air travel (and any other kind of travel, for that matter) truly secure?"
Quick, Silence The Dissenter! (Score:1, Funny)
Hurry, black bag him before he tells everyone the truth! Copyright Infringement! DMCA! Trade Secret! Terrorism! Something! Quick!
Re:The only way to fly safe! (Score:5, Funny)
DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS!
Re:The only way to fly safe! (Score:3, Funny)
Have you seen the movies they show on flights nowadays? If they aren't aiming for "comatose", they're at least hoping that the stomach pains will keep us from doing anything unexpected.
Re:Just what I've always said (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Uh No (Score:2, Funny)
We should not travel naked. The main attack vector is always due to some activity (implements can always be found if some activity is permitted). Rather, people should be led into a waiting hall and put under with a sleeping gas, then loaded into explosion proof containers and loaded onto cargo planes for delivery.
Re:Uh No (Score:3, Funny)
I especially liked the comment on Bruce's blog where someone notes that they don't mind having to fly wearing only a hospital johnny as long as they get the seat next to the cute redhead.
Re:Mod Up (Score:5, Funny)
Where do I subscribe to your newsletter?
Re:Uh No (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Uh No (Score:5, Funny)
we'd all have to board planes naked (you could strangle someone with the elastic band from your underwear!)
They still wouldn't let me board the plane as security would quickly realize I could still strangle people...
Bruce Schneier at an airport (Score:5, Funny)
Some other things you might not know about Bruce (Score:3, Funny)
Bruce Schneier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret.
Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes.
Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.
Bruce Schneier once decrypted a box of AlphaBits.
Vs lbh nfxrq Oehpr Fpuarvre gb qrpelcg guvf, ur'q pehfu lbhe fxhyy jvgu uvf ynhtu.
Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.
Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat
If we built a Dyson sphere around Bruce Schneier and captured all of his energy for 2 months, without any loss, we could power an ideal computer running at 3.2 degrees K to count up to 2^256. This strongly implies that not only can Bruce Schneier brute-force attack 256-bit keys, but that he is built of something other than matter and occupies something other than space.
When Bruce Schneier observes a quantum particle, it remains in the same state until he has finished observing it.
Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdanes the use of a mask or secret identity as 'security through obscurity'.
Re:What about making other things more secure firs (Score:3, Funny)
Close to the number people who were killed by people wanting to kill someone that had a gun available as one of their means of doing so?
Re:Mod Up (Score:5, Funny)
It's boring and wordy and mostly amounts to Basket Case whining about how people are told that self-defense is wrong, or Letters to the Editor that read along the lines of "you are fucking stupid, you think you can take someone with a gun, anyone who has a gun just has to shoot you and you're dead!"
You'd be better off 1) taking your gun to a firing range and learning to fire it; 2) taking a self-defense-with-guns class to learn how to use it; and 3) taking a close-combat martial art to learn how to deal with situations where your firearm is useless (or you don't have it).
Or you could just learn to play guitar. By the time someone offs you, you'll just be staring down the barrel thinking, "Eh, I've got blow jobs from like four thousand girls, I had a fun enough ride."
Re:The only way to fly safe! (Score:4, Funny)
If they aren't aiming for "comatose", they're at least hoping that the stomach pains will keep us from doing anything unexpected.
Just make sure these stomach pains don't make you spend too much in the toilet!
guns are better. (Score:5, Funny)
You have to train a lifetime to become a Ninja, and you have to learn a lot of useless skills like clever ways to poison people. Further, the equipment is expensive and must often be custom forged and relentlessly cared for.
A Pirate can be trained in a matter of days and requires no more expensive equipment than a pile of shabby rags and a rusty flintlock pistol. What they lack in manners and aim, they make up for in volume and gusto.
Re:Nope (Score:3, Funny)
Hopefully not long. Once the overweight albanian women with excruciating body odor are dead maybe I can stretch out and get comfortable.
Re:Bruce Schneier at an airport (Score:5, Funny)
Bruce Schneier gets the jokes in the Voynich manuscript.
Bruce Schneier can determine if a program terminates just by looking at it. And then the program terminates itself.
Bruce Schneier once decrypted a box of AlphaBits.
Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes.
Bruce Schneier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret.
Bruce Schneier can read captchas.
Bruce Schneier's password has so much entropy, that gzipping it results in a stream sixty four times as long. And yet he can type it with a single roundhouse kick to the keyboard.
Bruce Schneier knows Chuck Norris's private key.
Re:Uh No (Score:5, Funny)
On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld was giving a press conference about how $2B was missing from the Pentagon.
On September 10, 2001, the WTC security contract with Securacom ended. Marvin Bush, W's brother, was a principle in the company, and also sat on the Board of directors of KuwAm, an Kuwaiti-American investment firm which financially backed Securacom.
...and Earth has 4 corner simultaneous 4-day TIME CUBE in only 24 hour rotation. Care to connect more dots, Gene?
Re:Bruce Schneier at an airport (Score:5, Funny)
Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat.
Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.
When Bruce Schneier observes a quantum particle, it remains in the same state until he has finished observing it.
Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdanes the use of a mask or secret identity as 'security through obscurity'.
Re:Uh No (Score:3, Funny)
Then the airlines can finally show what they REALLY think of their coach passengers and install garbage truck styled compactors.