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Re: Airport x-ray software creating images of phantom weapons?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:49:07 -0500
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 05:08:48 GMT, Jason Coombs said:
If quality is the true objective, then perhaps we should adopt exceptions to intellectual property laws to force into the public domain any creative work that has the capability to impact the security of anything important...
A few minutes of careful thought and pondering over what security measures have been deployed and proposed will reveal the following: 1) Invisible effective measures don't do much good, because they don't sway votes. 2) Highly visible measures, even if ineffective, do "good" because they allow the projection of a "We're doing something about it" spin. Now, why do you think "quality" counts as an objective here? (Consider in your discussion the chances that the Department of Homeland Security will *ever* lower the Threat Level to 'green', and under what conditions that would happen, and what that would mean for the continued employment of the people responsible for lowering it to green....)
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