Re: How to ensure the market crashes

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

A single day drop of 1,000 points in the Dow Jones Average should do the
trick.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:22 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] How to ensure the market crashes

I'm sorry, but this *is* relevant to security: you can either file it under
bad social engineering, or really, really stupid ways to deal with an
emergency.

Even psychologists can tell you this doesn't work.  The way to get people to
buy into a risky proposition is to reduce the apparent adverse consequences
for the position you want people to take, not to increase the negative
effects on the other side.  And we know (we have just had yet another
example in the United Airlines "old news" case) that the "market" reacts
very, very badly to rumours.

(No, I'm not interested in the politics of it.  It's just brinksmanship of
the very worst kind.)

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/09/23/bailout-push.html

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