The War on the Unexpected

The War on the Unexpected (Schneier.com)

Ausschnitt:

We've opened up a new front on the war on terror. It's an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it's a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested -- even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats. [...] The problem is that ordinary citizens don't know what a real terrorist threat looks like. [...] Even worse: after someone reports a "terrorist threat," the whole system is biased towards escalation and CYA instead of a more realistic threat assessment. (Quelle: Schneier.com)