Over the few days since my recent post about my hopes for 2020, I’ve come up with a few more ways in which I hope we can collectively improve our situation before this new decade is spent. Just like last time, these aren’t things that I necessarily expect to be fixed by 2020, but they [...]
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Security Theatre
This piece by Bruce Schneier, on the perils of security theatre and the short-sightedness of anti-terrorism tactics in airports and elsewhere, carries a disclaimer at the bottom:
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bruce Schneier.
Not so. It’s a pretty accurate expression of a great many people’s opinions.
The best defenses against terrorism are [...]
2020 Foresight
We have reached a milestone. When counting from an arbitrary time in the past, using an arbitrary date system built on an arbitrary numeral system, we reached a day whose date, when compared to that of an average day, possesses a more pleasing roundness. That is to say there’s nothing inherently magical or mystical or [...]