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Re: Explosive breast implants
From: "Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)" <michael.blanchard () emc com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:36:57 +0000
Breast implants make zero sense at all... Sure you could have implants the size of EE cups that will hold a *lot* of liquid, and setting it off with an injection might work.... or better yet, use a binary liquid explosive, one component in each breast, go into the airplane bathroom and slice each breast to extract the liquid... Suicide bombers pretty much want to go out with a bang and I doubt they'll get too far slicing their breasts open.... But with the heightened security at airports, it's just not feasible, why attempt to attack something that is so well guarded these days? the bad guys probably agree and that's why they're targeting European trains now, they're an easier target to hit and still gets their message across.... Michael P. Blanchard Principal Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Cyber Security Services EMC ² Corporation 32 Coslin Drive Southboro, MA 01772 -----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 6:00 PM To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: [funsec] Explosive breast implants http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/Blog/2013/08/16/Explosive-breast-implants-are- now-a-terror-threat/4521376677949 Not much detail here, but I'm calling bullshit. Or, at least, irrelevance. Yes, I suppose you could put a few ounces of a liquid or gel explosive into a breast implant, but how would you set it off? Without wires coming out of the skin, large radio receivers and batteries (which would leave less room for explosives), or huge radio transmitters that would look kind of suspicious. ("No, really, Mr. TSA agent, my cell phone has to have this car battery to operate.") If you were going to go that route, it would be a lot easier to have abdominal surgery, and go for the gut, where any person as obese as I am could carry twenty pounds of explosives with no problem at all. And the surgery could be passed off as gall bladder, appendix, hernia repair, stomach banding, or any number of others. You could probably liposuction fat and replace it with explosives. (Yeah, it would look terrible and probably get infected quickly, but what would a suicide bomber care?) With anyone over 50, you could even insert a detonation switch that looked like a pacemaker. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs of my destiny in the sky, and there were none - there were just snowflakes. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau recounting a `walk in the snow' at a news conference announcing his resignation, Feb. 29, 1984 victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Explosive breast implants, (continued)
- Re: Explosive breast implants Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 20)
- Re: Explosive breast implants Nick FitzGerald (Aug 20)
- Re: Explosive breast implants Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec) (Aug 21)
- Re: Explosive breast implants Jeffrey Walton (Aug 20)
- Re: Explosive breast implants Stephanie Daugherty (Aug 21)
- Re: Explosive breast implants Steve Pirk (Aug 21)
- Re: Explosive breast implants Steve Pirk (Aug 21)
- Re: Explosive breast implants Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec) (Aug 22)
- Re: Explosive breast implants Jeffrey Walton (Aug 19)