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| Posted by Chill on 09 Oct 2009 at 03:52 pm |
What The Associated Press is saying to Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.
Mainly it boils down to, “Blah, blah, we’re about to do something idiotic because we don’t understand the internet blah blah blah.”
I can’t tell from that article what AP is planning on doing. Trying to get more money from its licensees, and get higher search rankings, is all I could see.
I was obliquely referring to the AP’s DRM push which is also due to arrive at the same time (and be associated with) all this effort. The article didn’t talk about it, though — not in any explicit terms, but that’s part of their plan.
Great comment on Schneier’s site:
It has occurred many times to me while I was standing in a queue for security at the airport that the average suicide bomber would maximize disruption to society by targeting that very queue. High concentration of people carrying bags, backpacks, etc. and organized such to fit as many individuals per square meter. What more could you ask for (as a prospective suicide bomber)? I’m sure a few simple calls would cause some major delays and hence lots of congestion at the checkpoint, thus maximizing damage.
Basically the point of security checkpoints is to secure the area beyond it whereas the goal of a suicide bomber is to maximize damage. Targeting a single security checkpoint at a major international airport would, even if it failed, completely cripple operations of airports all over the world since over-night they would have to switch to securing the area in front of them instead of behind them. Also, there would be no obvious solution since more security checkpoint would just move the problem.
Posted by: Jilles van Gurp at October 9, 2009 12:34 PM