On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:18:00AM -0800, alan wrote:
>
> The extra anal security guard can be fun to play with.
A little bit more about "guards":
In 1985/86 I did my compulsory army service in Koblenz, which
also included to be the guard of the barracks for several days.
When I was the guard
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 01:33:26PM +0100, Stefan Kelm wrote:
> to take bags through the checkpoint. What happened was that I gave my bag
> to one of those officers, then went through the gate, then was given back
> my bag which was not being checked at all...
I had a similar experience:
When
Matt,
> If I were looking for a "winner" for this, I'd be especially interested in
> measures that end up reducing security rather than improving it.
one could argue whether or not the whole bunch of software tools would
fit into that category which has been crypto-crippled due to export
restri
I'll never forget the first time I checked in at SFO International, back
in 1996. They were rebuilding the whole place such that the security
gates had been placed in the middle of a large room. Of course, one had
to pass through these gates but, as is customary, you were not supposed
to take b
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:10:56PM -0500, Matt Blaze wrote:
> If I were looking for a "winner" for this, I'd be especially interested
> in measures that end up reducing security rather than improving it.
One of the worst security measures I've ever personally seen:
Some years ago I was invited a
If I were looking for a "winner" for this, I'd be especially interested
in measures that end up reducing security rather than improving it.
One category of these is those that improve one person or group's
security a little but degrade someone else's a lot. An example of
this would be the "requir
At 10:11 AM 2/12/03 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
"Human rights watchdog Privacy International has launched a quest to
find the World's Most Stupid Security Measure. "
I can't imagine this is the stupidest, but there's a state office building
in Missouri where (no doubt due to some Directive From
"Human rights watchdog Privacy International has launched a quest to
find the World's Most Stupid Security Measure. "
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29279.html
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
