Prem Chandavarkar on Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:01:44 +0100 (CET) |
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RE: <nettime> Bruce Schneier on "Homeland Insecurity" |
> Security involves a tradeoff: a balance of the costs and benefits..... Security measures against terrorism are necessary, but can only handle (at best) short term needs. They are unsustainable and ineffective in the long run - and the recent set of false alarms serves to demonstrate this problem. The only effective long-term strategy to reduce terrorism is to earn the goodwill of the population from which it springs. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net