New York Times: "If you were a terrorist, how would you attack?"
Posted by DarthDilbert at 8/09/2007 08:54:00 AM
The TSA recently announced that most airplane carry-on restrictions will stay in place for at least another year, until new X-ray technology has been fully installed. Surprisingly, one item that will now be permitted on board is a lighter. While it seems crazy to keep people from bringing toothpaste, deodorant, or water on a plane, it doesn’t seem so strange to ban lighters, which could be used to start fires. I wonder whether the lighter manufacturers were lobbying for or against this rule change — on the one hand, having 22,000 lighters confiscated per day would seem good for business; but on the other hand, maybe fewer people will buy lighters if they can't travel with them.
Hearing about these rules got me thinking about what I would do to maximize terror if I were a terrorist with limited resources.
Absolutely amazing. The author of this is Steven D. Levitt is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. He was also named one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World." How soon before Pinch Sulzberger changes the motto to "All The Treason That's Fit To Print"?
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