Schneier on Security

I love the onion.

I vote for the Baraboo High School junior anyday.

which is exactly the reason I don't own a letterbox ...

And here I thought it was a strategic al-Qaeda move in taking out mailboxes to cripple the US' communication infrastructure and cause massive economic impact by displacing all those junk mail houses. Of course it does explain all the toilet paper in my trees on the same day the box went missing...

After I read the [excellent] Onion article, I went on to read the next item in Bruce's blog, about children needing body armor. Obviously the Onion article is parody, but I'm not sure that the children body armor one isn't.

I knew we could twist the security argument around to locking up all the kids in the concentration camp in Cuba!

Jamaica, actually.

The Wikipedia article on Tranquility Bay which I'd prefer to cite has had all the relevant information removed in recent edits, but articles about it are on my own Web site here: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/youthrights/...

Data mining: Tells the NSA everything they ever wanted to know about everybody - except the things that really matter. =;o)

@ Fenris Fox: Does what they find out not depend on the questions they are asking while data-mining? If they ask stupid questions, they get stupid answers (GIGO principle of analysis)

@Bryan: "Obviously the Onion article is parody, but I'm not sure that the children body armor one isn't."

There's probably more accurate fact in The Onion than there is in the modern incarnation of The Times. It's a parody of it's former self.

I didn't realize this was a parody until I read Bruce's comment on it. Sure, it is an example of grotesque over-defensiveness - but it's not so different from real cases that Bruce has linked to in the past.

The article is dated August 2004. Kind of old news you know.

It is unbelievable, which is possible now a days. Simply intolerably.

Last nite's "South Park" played all the anti terorism cards. One conclusion: 'profiling isn't much good when almost everyone hates us'

If you read The Onion for long enough, it becomes very hard to tell the difference between parody and reality.

Get one of the large Onion books and read it for an hour, then go surf news web sites. Your brain will attempt to parse the "real news" as "parody news". And it usually does so very well.

Much of real news is Parody. at the very least It is most certinaly a missrepresentation of the truth. This is not just a US thing either.

Its what we read. Because more people are lilkly to read a vamped up story, and hence gain more add revenue and or fame. Thats what reporters write... We don't wan't "truth" we want drama and entertainment etc....