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Catching Up With An Aqua Teen Terrorist

Oct 23

10 Zen Monkeys, November 2007

January 31, 2007: a day that will live in infamy. The great city of Boston was brought to its knees by the appearance of unexpected L.E.D. placards in places where they didn’t belong. Alert to potential connections between terror and anything a wee bit unusual, stout citizens and government officials alike in the land of the free and the home of the brave peed their metaphoric pants. The L.E.D. character was described in a CNN report as “a Mooninite, an outer-space delinquent… greeting passersby with an upraised middle finger.” Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley was quoted in the same piece as saying, “It had a very sinister appearance.” The horror. The horror.

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Homeland Security Follies: Bruce Schneier Interviewed

Oct 21

10 Zen Monkeys, April 2007

According to the sleeve of his latest book, Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security, “in an Uncertain World, Bruce Schneier is the go-to security expert for business leaders and policy makers.” If only the policy makers would listen, we’d be safer, happier and still free.

Other books include Applied Cryptography, described by Wired as “the book the NSA wanted never to be published.”

Beyond Fear deals with security issues ranging from personal safety to national security and terrorism. Schneier is also a frequent contributor toWired magazine, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and many other fine periodicals. He also writes a monthly newsletter, Cryptogram.

I interviewed him on The R.U. Sirius Show.

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