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Schneier On the War On the Unexpected
jamie found this essay by Bruce Schneier, The War on the Unexpected. (It originally appeared in Wired but this version has all the links.) "We've opened up a new front on the war on terror. It's an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it's a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested — even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats... After someone reports a 'terrorist threat,' the whole system is biased towards escalation and CYA instead of a more realistic threat assessment... If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security."
full of win
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Support the 30 Hour Work Week!!!
BURNS: Why is that man in pink?!
SMITHERS: Oh, that's Homer Simpson, sir. He's one of your boobs from Sector 7-G.
BURNS: Simpson, eh? Well, judging by his outlandish attire, he's some sort of free-thinking anarchist!
SMITHERS: I'll call security, sir.
BURNS: Excellent. Yes, these color monitors have already paid for themselves...
Thanks, Yoda.
Well just to be safe, we should have a twice as thorough checkpoint at the airport entrance!
Fnord.