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Obligatory Sept 11th post

September 11, 2006

Obli­ga­tory Sept 11th post:
Where was I?  What was I doing?  What was I doing the night before?  I don't know.  I was asleep.  I was between jobs.  I was woken up at 10am or per­haps 11 by an excited phone call.  I had a good tele­vi­sion with crappy rabbit-ears.  I watched the news ser­vices playing […]

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Blowin’ Shit Up

March 20, 2003

Okay, so it now looks like we are “blowin' shit up.”  I have added to my cus­tom Live­Jour­nal style and our office cam page a body count counter from Iraq Body Count that shows the cur­rent civil­ian body count.  The data is sci­en­tif­i­cally gath­ered from a num­ber of sources, and because sources some­times indi­cate a […]

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“Alas,” said the cat, and ate it up.

November 16, 2001

Why is it that the gub’ment can repeal and/or change a few amend­ments with­out a sec­ond thought (the Anti-Terrorism Act that makes hack­ing an act of ter­ror­ism, the man­date that ter­ror­ists can be tor­tured, and the order that sus­pected ter­ror­ists can be tried in secret mil­i­tary courts with­out the right to appeal), yet it takes […]

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Collect All 90!

November 7, 2001

Is it me, or does it seem exces­sive to have base­ball cards depict­ing Oper­a­tion Endur­ing Free­dom?  Hell, this “war on ter­ror­ism” isn’t even over yet!

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The Barn Door

October 23, 2001

It seems to me that we are con­stantly play­ing the “catch up” game–constantly clos­ing the barn door after the horse has escaped. 
They hijack a plane.  We add extra secu­rity after the fact. 
They poi­son our mail.  We care­fully open the mail and talk about putting UV and ion­iz­ing radi­a­tion washes in the mail pro­cess­ing machines […]

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Blah…

October 17, 2001

Now, let’s see a sim­i­lar sce­nario, only with Anthrax.
Hello, Cap’n Tripps.

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Anthrax

October 17, 2001

Good thing they don’t have their hands on smallpox…yet…

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Pen and Sword, in Accord

September 27, 2001

We were told a cou­ple of weeks ago that the ter­ror­ists are not smart or skilled enough to have chem­i­cal or bio­log­i­cal weapons. 

Ter­ror­ists
…These groups are gen­er­ally more con­cerned with caus­ing harm than gath­er­ing infor­ma­tion, so their tech­niques run more along the lines of denial of ser­vice and out­right destruc­tion.  While their long-term goals […]

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Bombs and Airplanes and Bears, Oh My!

September 12, 2001

On the one hand, I have to admire the ter­ror­ists.  I am in the process of read­ing a book called “Secrets and Lies,” which describes secu­rity issues in the mod­ern world.  It it writ­ten by a famous modern-day cryp­tog­ra­pher, but it does not focus on the math issues.  The math is easy.  The math always […]

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Watching the plane crashes on repeat

September 11, 2001

I am sit­ting at home, watch­ing all of the inten­tional plane crashes in the news–and sud­denly it hits me.  The per­fect ter­ror­ist attack would be a META attack!  The per­fect ter­ror­ist attack would involve insert­ing a fic­ti­tious, yet very believ­able and scary, news story into the news services–complete with full motion video and audio and […]

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