Re: Bloggers Fingered as Possible National Security Threat

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On Jan 31, 2008 11:33 AM, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> > The laundry list of fictional catastrophes - which include hundreds of
> > people on "No Fly" lists suddenly arriving at airport ticket counters - is
> > significant because it suggests what kind of real-world trouble keeps
> > people in the White House awake at night.
>
> For these exercises, part of the scenario is to overload the participants
> with decoys or distractions, not real threats, to see how well they
> discard non-threats and focus on what has the highest risk/threat.
>
> The entire laundry list probably isn't what keeps people in the White
> House awake at night.  But I guess the scenario designers were doing their
> job picking distractors based on the uncritical reaction of some people.


They could have saved some effort and just used Schneier's data:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/movieplot_threa_1.html

:-)


-JP
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