Daring Fireball Linked List: Bruce Schneier on Aviation Security
Gruber quotes:
Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a country’s way of life; it’s only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. The more we undermine our own laws, the more we convert our buildings into fortresses, the more we reduce the freedoms and liberties at the foundation of our societies, the more we’re doing the terrorists’ job for them.
And that’s exactly it. Terrorism is essentially a criminal problem, a politically motivated form of organized crime, no more an existential threat than serial killers.
