Post Tagged with: "Security"

EU plan: The rise and rise of the securocrats

The creation of an EU-US common security area by 2014 and “convergence” on surveillance and data gathering, redefining “home affairs” as a matter of EU internal security. This story is reported at least by the Telegraph and the Guardian. The original leaked report is here. To say the least, I […]

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Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot

More from Schneier, a leader in cryptography and other areas of security: Terrorism is a real threat, and one that needs to be addressed by appropriate means. But allowing ourselves to be terrorized by wannabe terrorists and unrealistic plots — and worse, allowing our essential freedoms to be lost by […]

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Are photographers really a threat?

Leading security expert Bruce Schneier writes in the Guardian: Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome. We’ve been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers, especially suspicious ones. Clearly any terrorist is going […]

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