And speaking of places where photography is restricted...

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

..comes this, via Bruce Schneier's blog.

Bruce says that a friend of his "writes about his
experiences -- involving the police -- taking pictures
in airports":

[snip]

He makes sure to remind me, just as his colleague in New Hampshire had done, that next time I'd benefit from advance 
permission, and that "we live in a different world now." Not to put undue weight on the cheap prose of patriotic 
convenience, but few things are more repellant than that oft- repeated catchphrase.

There's something so pathetically submissive about it -- a sound bite of such defeat and capitulation. It's also 
untrue; indeed we find ourselves in an altered way of life, though not for the reasons our protectors would have us 
think. We weren't forced into this by terrorists, we've chosen it. When it comes to flying, we tend to hold the events 
of Sept. 11 as the be-all and end-all of air crimes, conveniently purging our memories of several decades' worth of 
bombings and hijackings.

The threats and challenges faced by airports aren't terribly different from what they've always been. What's different, 
or "too bad," to quote the New Hampshire deputy, is our paranoid, overzealous reaction to those threats, and our 
amped-up obeisance to authority.

[snip]

Pointer:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/02/photographing_a.html

- ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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