POST: Bruce Schneier on TSA Absurdity and the Need for Resilience, By Jeffrey Goldberg, 29 Dec 2009

Nice explanation of the sort of common sense we need to apply to the problem.

Townsend, Bush's homeland security adviser, was on CNN yesterday saying that we should figure out terrorists' plans beforehand and then put the special security procedures in place versus applying them retroactively. Wow, that sure would be nice, and after another big bong hit I might think it was actually possible. But do I want to make anti-terrorism the central fact of my existence? Does it make sense to offer these peon enemies the gift of symmetry?

Or do we simply continue pushing behind the one big force that will make them all irrelevant in the end--aka, globalization? Fortress America or f--k-em-up with social revolution through connectivity? Which sounds like a better future where we make more money?

(Thanks: Patrick O'Connor)