RE: "michael chertoff reassured people things would only goso far"

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

Yikes, kids are making TATP now?  Not good.  My friends and I never got
beyond saltpeter and sugar.  I'm telling you, this Internet thingy is giving
kids are sorts of crazy ideas nowadays.

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Blanchard_Michael () emc com
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 4:15 PM
To: fergdawg () netzero net; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] "michael chertoff reassured people things would only
goso far"

Coincidence?

 Last week CNN reported "kids" yes under the age of 13 I believe the three
were, creating "peroxide bombs" and setting them off in their driveway.  CNN
even went so far as to state the three items the kids were mixing together
in a plastic soda pop bottle and letting explode in their driveway.

  They were arrested and sent to juvenile hall awaiting trial for a Felony
Juvenile offense.

  NOW...

  We have 21 people arrested for doing the same thing and wanting to blow up
planes with the same bombs....

  Was this terror act really being planned for years?  Or was it being
planned for a week after they saw it on CNN and decided that it would be a
good thing to try out to kill a bunch of people?

  The media certainly takes things too damned far if you ask me.  They
certainly didn't have to mention EXACTLY what those kids were mixing and
EXACTLY (almost) where to find the instructions to do the same thing....

  <off soapbox> 


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 4:00 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] "michael chertoff reassured people things would only
go so far"

-- Paul Vixie <paul () vix com> wrote:

> "I don't see us moving to a total ban on hand baggage at this point"
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060813/ap_on_re_us/terror_plot_security_6

Let's hope so.

On a related point, I ran across this just a few minutes ago:

[snip]

As the British terror plot was unfolding, the Bush administration
quietly tried to take away $6 million that was supposed to be spent
this year developing new explosives detection technology.

Congressional leaders rejected the diversion of funds, the latest in a
series of Homeland Security Department steps that have left lawmakers
and some of the department's own experts questioning the commitment to
create better antiterror technologies.

[snip]

More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14333164/

I guess we can all feel (fear?) better now. :-)

- ferg

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


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