Bruce Schneier: Beyond Fear

In his lated book, Beyond Fear, security guru Bruce Schneier challenges the post-9/11 national security practices. Here are some teasers:

• "We're seeing so much nonsense after 9/11, and so many people are saying things about security, about terrorism that just makes no sense."

• "Homeland security measures are an enormous waste of money."

• "If the goal of security is to protect against yesterday's attacks, we're really good at it."

• "The system didn't fail in the way the designers expected."

• "Attackers exploit the rarity of failures."

• "More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk."

• "Did you ever wonder why tweezers were confiscated at security checkpoints, but matches and cigarette lighters--actual combustible materials--were not?...If the tweezers lobby had more power, I'm sure they would have been allowed on board as well."

• "When the U.S. Government says that security against terrorism is worth curtailing individual civil liberties, it's because the cost of that decision is not borne by those making it."

• "...people make bad security trade-offs when they're scared."
  

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