Re: Explosive breast implants

["Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)" <michael.blanchard () emc com>]

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


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Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 6:00 PM
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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.

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