New kind of underwear in Yemen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17985709

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My background is information security and risk management and I have been following Bruce Schneier for years. In general, he comes at this issue from a completely different perspective and level of analysis than you do. I’m looking forward to a most interesting conversation. This is going to be great. Thanks for setting this up . . .

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I’m with Schneier on getting rid of the Security Theater altogether, but he’s lacking honesty or rationality on his analysis of the screening problem.

When you’re dealing with rare event detection, you’re filtering to sort the population into a higher probability pool. Similarly, when you’re dealing with an enemy, you’re trying to increase his costs. Neither requires that your methods are foolproof.

Likely that the optimal strategy is to maintain a weighted random screening, focusing more resources on certain profiles. The optimal *will not* be failing to adjust your allocation of resources and attention according to the information you gather.

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