Schneier on Security

Clive Robinson • June 21, 2013 6:50 PM

@Dirk Praet,

+10

I’ve said for quite some time the way to deal with these sort of self important types is via humour, if enough jokes are told about them then they become a joke in most peoples eyes.

And that robs them not only of authority but any kind of respect including self respect. It also gets to the politicos, after all they don’t want to be seen as giving money to a bunch of halfwits that everybody is laughing at Because that makes the politicos look less bright than the bunch of halfwits jokes standing there with their hands out….

Clive Robinson • June 23, 2013 6:21 AM

@ Jonathan,

I need that on a T-Shirt right now 😉

In fact with the news the way it is at the moment they might sell rather well 🙂

@ Figureitout,

It’s funny you should mention “home intruders” a little while ago I was in my house and heard somebody playing with the back door. I went into the kitchen and saw someone walking around towards the French Windows. In front of me I had two knife blocks including meat cleavers (I enjoy cooking and charcutery) and many pans.

My first instinct was for the 12inch cooks knife, but my brain over rode it so I went for the old 8inch sauce pan. Needless to say the trespasser became agressive and grabed a weapon (broke the trellis off the fence) and a fight followed, in which he discovered just how painfull smashing you fist into a solid base saucepan can be. Any way I evicted him and his companion from the property and I called the police who turned up rather rapidly.

Any way the police arrested and charged the two, but unfortunatly the Criminal 0rosecution Service decided not to follow it up despite the evidence. Any way on explaining to the police why I went for the saucepan and not the meatcleaver or other knives he had a good look at the saucepan and it had a significant dent in it in a place it should not have easily dented. Thinking back it could only have happened when the trespasser swung the trellis at my head. I’ve since worked out by experiment just how much force it hit with… Lets just say if it had hit my head it would probably have gone through the skull.

Further if I had been holding a knife it would not have stopped the trellis, so I got lucky that day my choice of a mainly defensive rather than offensive weapon probably saved my life.