Sunday, November 28, 2010

Schneier on Security: The DHS is Getting Rid of the Color-Coded Terrorism Alert System

Schneier on Security: The DHS is Getting Rid of the Color-Coded Terrorism Alert System: "Good. It was always a dumb idea:

The color-coded threat levels were doomed to fail because 'they don’t tell people what they can do --­ they just make people afraid,' said Bruce Schneier, an author on security issues. He said the system was 'a relic of our panic after 9/11' that 'never served any security purpose.'"

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