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XKCD Today
It’s a good one. Be sure to read the hover-over text.
Dilbert on Security Standards
So true (the predecessor).
EDITED TO ADD (10/13): XKCD makes the sam point.
Security Cartoon
Nice cartoon on the problems of content filtering.
Jury Says it's Okay to Record the TSA
The Seattle man who refused to show ID to the TSA and recorded the whole incident has been cleared of all charges:
[The jury] returned not guilty verdicts for charges that included concealing his identity, refusing to obey a lawful order, trespassing, and disorderly conduct.
Papers, Please! says the acquittal proves what TSA critics have said all along: That checkpoint staff have no police powers, that contrary to TSA claims, passengers have the right to fly without providing ID, and yes, passengers are free to video record checkpoints as long as images on screening monitors aren’t captured.
“Annoying the TSA is not a crime,” the blog post states. “Photography is not a crime. You have the right to fly without ID, and to photograph, film, and record what happens.”
And a recent Dilbert is about the TSA.
EDITED TO ADD (1/10): Details and links.
Sane Comments on Terrorism
From Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center:
Ultimately, Leiter said, it’ll be the “quiet, confident resilience” of Americans after a terrorist attack that will “illustrate ultimately the futility of terrorism.” That doesn’t mean not to hit back: Leiter quickly added that “we will hold those accountable [and] we will be ready to respond to those attacks.” But it does mean recognizing, he said, that “we help define the success of an attack by our reaction to that attack.”
Sure, I’ve been saying this since forever. But I think this is the most senior government person who has said this.
EDITED TO ADD (12/8): There are enough essays with this sentiment that I’m going to stop blogging about it. Here’s what I have saved up.
Roger Cohen, “The Real Threat to America“:
So I give thanks this week for the Fourth Amendment: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
I give thanks for Benjamin Franklin’s words after the 1787 Constitutional Convention describing the results of its deliberations: “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
To keep it, push back against enhanced patting, Chertoff’s naked-screening and the sinister drumbeat of fear.
Christopher Hitchens, Don’t Be an Ass About Airport Security.”
Tom Engelhardt, “The National Security State Cops a Feel.”
Evan DeFilippis, “A Nude Awakening—TSA and Privacy“:
If we have both the right to privacy and the right to travel, then TSA´s newest procedures cannot conceivably be considered legal. The TSA´s regulations blatantly compromise the former at the expense of the latter, and as time goes on we will soon forget what it meant to have those rights.
EDITED TO ADD (12/8): Also, this great comic.
Pen-and-Paper SQL Injection Attack Against Swedish Election
Some copycat imitated this xkcd cartoon in Sweden, hand writing an SQL injection attack onto a paper ballot. Even though the ballot was manually entered into the vote database, the attack (and the various other hijinks) failed. This time.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.