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Securing a Country from Terrorism...

I've become an avid reader of Bruce Schneier's blog. Bruce is an international renowned security technologist and author. The Economist refers to him as the foremost "Security Guru."

His blog entry regarding yesterday's attacks in London begins by saying that, as he's on vacation, he doesn't have all the detailed information he'd usually have by this time. But I found these paragraphs of his quite interesting:

I would also like to urge everyone not to get wrapped up in the particulars of the terrorist tactics. We need to resist the urge to react against the particulars of this particular terrorist plot, and to keep focused on the terrorists' goals. Spending billions to defend our trains and busses at the expense of other counterterrorist measures makes no sense. Terrorists are out to cause terror, and they don't care if they bomb trains, busses, shopping malls, theaters, stadiums, schools, markets, restaurants, discos, or any other collection of 100 people in a small space. There are simply too many targets to defend, and we need to think smarter than protecting the particular targets the terrorists attacked last week.

Smart counterterrorism focuses on the terrorists and their funding -- stopping plots regardless of their targets -- and emergency response that limits their damage.


See this entry in full (with comments) at http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/london_transpor.html#comments

 
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