Comments on: An Alternate Reality http://spiresecurity.com/?p=346 Risk and Cybersecurity Analysis Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:28:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: anon http://spiresecurity.com/?p=346&cpage=1#comment-492 anon Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:28:42 +0000 http://spiresecurity.com/blog/?p=346#comment-492 Pass the word:

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Law Office of Michael L. Rich
74 Newport Street
Arlington MA 02476

]]> By: newsham http://spiresecurity.com/?p=346&cpage=1#comment-491 newsham Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:04:53 +0000 http://spiresecurity.com/blog/?p=346#comment-491 “The devices, disguised to look like newspaper stands (garbage cans, parked cars, etc.) were placed throughout the cities..”

Why is a circuit board with batteries and wires threatening to you? Would it be less threatening if it were made by sony or apple and sold in a friendly retail store?
Why aren’t cars and newspaper stands more threatening to you? Do you realize how easy it is to hide a bomb in a parked car?

]]> By: Chris http://spiresecurity.com/?p=346&cpage=1#comment-490 Chris Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:49:27 +0000 http://spiresecurity.com/blog/?p=346#comment-490 If something sticks out like a sore thumb, chances are that it was meant to be seen.

Bombs are not meant to be seen.

Therefore, if something sticks out like a sore thumb, chances are it is not a bomb.

The decision to be made, given finite resources, is just how unlikely the potential bomb needs to be before it can be ignored.

However, in this specific case it was easy to tell upon inspection that these were NOT bombs. So, even if we set agree that all possible bombs even remotely likely to be real should be inspected, the fact that this set of them took sooooo long to be consigned to the “false alarm” heap is itself worthy of criticism.

“Well, it could been a briefcase nuke with a Lite Brite attached” is not enough to rationalize the reaction in Boston.

]]> By: Kevin http://spiresecurity.com/?p=346&cpage=1#comment-489 Kevin Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:36:23 +0000 http://spiresecurity.com/blog/?p=346#comment-489 Great post, I’ve been trying to explain this at work all day but not nearly as well as you have done here.

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