Comments on: Little Brother http://www.jessiehirsch.com/wordpress/2008/10/08/little-brother/ Illustration, Photography, Silly Dances Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:16:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jessie Heaven Lotz http://www.jessiehirsch.com/wordpress/2008/10/08/little-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-5929 Jessie Heaven Lotz Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:09:42 +0000 http://www.jessiehirsch.com/wordpress/?p=336#comment-5929 Yeah, I used to read his blog, but since I actually had to think carefully about what I was reading, I tended to put it off, and the RSS feed got backed up and I unsubbed. :P I go through phases... maybe I should resub. I have learned a lot from him though... I read part of his book "Beyond Fear" and it was just... so smart. I applaud his efforts to reason with people about security and help the public understand WTF is going on (and what isn't going on). Yeah, I used to read his blog, but since I actually had to think carefully about what I was reading, I tended to put it off, and the RSS feed got backed up and I unsubbed. :P I go through phases… maybe I should resub.

I have learned a lot from him though… I read part of his book “Beyond Fear” and it was just… so smart. I applaud his efforts to reason with people about security and help the public understand WTF is going on (and what isn’t going on).

]]> By: Bryan McLellan http://www.jessiehirsch.com/wordpress/2008/10/08/little-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-5924 Bryan McLellan Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:01:33 +0000 http://www.jessiehirsch.com/wordpress/?p=336#comment-5924 Bruce Schneier blogs [1], it's worth a read. One of my favorite phrases that he talks about regularly is "Security Theater". The goal of most security is not to prevent something dangerous from happening, it's to calm peoples anxiety about something dangerous happening. Recently he talked about the liquid bans at airports. If you are caught with a gun at a Security Screening at an airport, you're in big trouble, arrested, interrogated, etc. If you're caught with a liquid, they throw it out and let you move on. Out of 100 attempts to get a liquid through security, eventually one will succeed and on the 99 other attempts nobody will give you much trouble. [1] http://www.schneier.com/blog/ Bruce Schneier blogs [1], it’s worth a read. One of my favorite phrases that he talks about regularly is “Security Theater”. The goal of most security is not to prevent something dangerous from happening, it’s to calm peoples anxiety about something dangerous happening.

Recently he talked about the liquid bans at airports. If you are caught with a gun at a Security Screening at an airport, you’re in big trouble, arrested, interrogated, etc. If you’re caught with a liquid, they throw it out and let you move on. Out of 100 attempts to get a liquid through security, eventually one will succeed and on the 99 other attempts nobody will give you much trouble.

[1] http://www.schneier.com/blog/

]]>