What seems, to me, to be a thoughtless, knee-jerk response to the July 7 London bombings, according to the Associated Press wire via WCBS 880 (AOL News, CNN) …
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs area transit hubs, bridges and tunnels, decided last Thursday to indefinitely sever power to transmitters that provide wireless service in the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, spokesman Tony Ciavolella said Monday.
This overly reactionary safety strategy makes me think about Bruce Schneier’s recent blog entry about talking to strangers and why the conventional wisdom of “don’t talk to strangers” is a poor strategy. In a world where the good guys far outnumber the bad guys, cellular phone use in the tunnels stand a greater chance of being used to provide advanced warnings of possible attacks rather than to cause them.
In order to better prepare and defend ourselves from terrorism, we need rational and thoughtful security strategies put into action, not last-minute, ill-prepared and panic-driven reaction. It makes you wonder what all that money for Homeland Security is really buying us …
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November 6th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Good question. I suspect the twitter user community who was accustomed to the old pre-oauth ways of dealing with authorization ...
November 5th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Another question that occurred to me -- how is this different than cookies allowing access to a site when browsing? ...
November 5th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I agree with that option as well. It largely depends on what the outstanding tokens allow access to in my ...
November 5th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I would paraphrase what Terrence said a bit: Most users expect that when you change your password, having known the ...
November 5th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Alex: That's a great analogy -- hopefully, that helps others understand why the "expected" behavior that Terence suggests is both ...