<story><title>No More Fear</title><url>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/12/29/My-Country</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>code_duck</author><text>My conclusion about all of this is that the government &lt;i&gt;wants&lt;/i&gt; people to be afraid. These are not real attempts to detect threats to flights. If anything, they&apos;re most interested in finding drugs and smuggled valuables. And this is not &apos;security theater&apos;. The intent is to get everyone used to invasive, police-state style behavior.</text></comment>
<story><title>No More Fear</title><url>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/12/29/My-Country</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zdw</author><text>Also recommended reading are Bruce Schneier&apos;s book &quot;Beyond Fear&quot; which provides a great mental framework for thinking about security (mainly IRL, but with applications in computing)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.schneier.com/book-beyondfear.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.schneier.com/book-beyondfear.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and his blog:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.schneier.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.schneier.com/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>