Schneier on Security

tenticles = tentacles/testicles?

Is the frequency of seeing/finding giant squid increasing? It seems to be every 2nd or 3rd month there is an event whereas a few years ago there were virtually none. Cyclical appearances??

@ Ronnie

> Is the frequency of seeing/finding giant squid increasing?

Yup, has to do with global warming. You see, a while back someone asked Bruce to comment on the security implications of global warming, and he didn't know what to say. A totally untenable situation for someone like Bruce. So he started this Friday squid thing, knowing that it would at least give him an oportunity to try to tie in global warming somewhere....
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@ Ronnie
> Is the frequency of seeing/finding giant squid increasing?
Or is it just that Bruce's world wide data collection group have been collecting all the previously ignored reports of squid sightings and forwarding them on to squid central for reporting on this forum?
As we know, heightened awareness of security tends to produce increased reporting of breaches without necessarily there being an increased incidence...

tenticles the size of human legs.

I know what you meant, but now I have this amusing visual in my head of a 25-foot long giant squid, with a 22-foot long head and 3-foot long tentacled :D

What's all the shit about with all these squids all the time. Maybe there was something, or is? or whatever. Squid sound like spam to me. Is this all about spamming the internet?
Why can't you just stop squiding?

Squid mentions increase blog interest and audience capture with cognitive dissonance - Schneier effectively demonstrates reader exploit.

somtimes a squid is just a squid.

And sometimes it's calamari.

When I first read this, I thought: Holy CR*P, it had TESTICLES the size of HUMAN BEINGS?

~EdT.

Not yet official:

http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_9712244

"The results of a genetics test, which will confirm whether it is in fact a giant squid, will not be available for a couple of months, according to Oliver."

Profiling gone awry again.

Could this also be to do with the deep sea being contaminated by chemicals we used 30+ years ago? Maybe like frogs they are moving to try and find a cleaner environment.
http://www.livescience.com/environment/...

@Operator
Okay, capturing the audience, and it effictively works. But what kind of audience do you capture here? Common people who actually should be interested in Security matters? Not really, ehh?

Imagine greenpeace posting about weapons, and there technical details. Also no relation -> leads to confussion -> they would get more attention. But at what cost.

Sounds to me like the Benetton campaign of Oliviero Toscani, which I disliked a lot. Point is I dislike mostly everything, that tries to manipulate. Give you some kind of information at cover to get your attention for something completly else.
Manipulative advertisement. And come on, that sucks. Truth first! Internet is already full of shit.