RISK- AVERSION & Consequences

[Jazzy]

This site seems at a brief glance quite readable. Even the comment section is good. Brief glance...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/our_newfound_fe.html

I really found not a thing wrong. The comments improved the piece, though.

 

[MikeC]

Well the comment that more people died by choosing to drive rather than fly after 9/11 is pretty suspect - eg see here

but generally people do do strange things based upon perceptions of threat - and the more people share the perception IMO the dumber the strange things they do gets!!

and I totally get the bit that politicians and people with public responsibilities are unwilling to allow risks because het risk to THEM is too great from a fickle public!!

 

[Mick West]

I've been reading Schneier for years, he's good on "security theater".

And I have his book "Applied Cryptography".

 

[Jazzy]

Well the comment that more people died by choosing to drive rather than fly after 9/11 is pretty suspect

The point is picked up in the comments. It made me itch too.

 

[Jazzy]

I've been reading Schneier for years and I have his book "Applied Cryptography".

Smartiepants.

I don't read nuffinck. The second-hand books on the plaza have titles like "Diana - her story" and "Top Gear Annual", and I don't actually know where to find an English Language bookshop anymore, now the one in Los Cristianos has either closed or moved.