{"id":2216,"date":"2007-08-03T07:22:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2007-08-03T07:22:12","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T12:22:12","slug":"security-theatre-is-it-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/security-theatre-is-it-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Theatre is it required?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Brad Stone<\/a> reflects on a talk by Mr. Security <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/\">Bruce Schneier<\/a> at the Black Hat Conference in<a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/02\/the-weird-psychology-of-security\/\"> &#8220;The Weird Pyschology of Security.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schneier&#8217;s talk is broader than Stone&#8217;s focus (see link to entire talk below) but Stone gets it right in this conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMr. Schneier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s message: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foolish to ask us to be rational about risks. And sometimes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153security theater\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c like the stuff we see at the airport \u00e2\u20ac\u201c can actually have a purpose when there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a need to reassure people that they really are safe. But such displays can still be harmful when there are no solid security measures to back them up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/schneier.com\/essay-155.html\">the entire talk at Schneier&#8217;s site<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes&#8217; Brad Stone reflects on a talk by Mr. Security Bruce Schneier at the Black Hat Conference in &#8220;The Weird Pyschology of Security.&#8221; Schneier&#8217;s talk is broader than Stone&#8217;s focus (see link to entire talk below) but Stone gets it right in this conclusion: Mr. Schneier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s message: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foolish to ask us to be rational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}