Security guru on terrorist threat
Bruce Schneier, the author of a classic security book, “Applied cryptography”, explains what’s wrong with fighting terrorism in US.
But the very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn’t worry about it. It’s when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry. But that’s not the way people think.
And some more:
The following three things are true about terrorism. One, the number of potential terrorist targets is infinite. Two, the odds of the terrorists going after any one target is zero. And three, the cost to the terrorist of switching targets is zero.
The bottom line is, don’t try to fight the consequences but fight the root cause. And don’t listen to the news :)
