Bomb Magnets
This story from yesterday about Railways testing anti-terror systems struck me as odd.
On the one hand, the attempt to produce scanning systems designed to automatically detect "suspicious behaviour" seems doomed to failure (we all know that computers are rubbish by now - except the government, it seems).
On the other, creating checkpoints to scan people and their belongings is surely just playing into the hands of suicide bombers, who seem to like nothing better than to blow themselves up at security checkpoints. Create a bottleneck where people rub shoulders and jostle about (like the Luton Airport passport check), and you will attract the martyrs.
What possible good will it do, once somebody is in a crowd at a checkpoint, to discover that they're carrying an explosive device? If they know they've been rumbled, they'll just set it off anyway.
The same principle applies to the building of nukular power stations, doesn't it? Bomb magnets.
On the one hand, the attempt to produce scanning systems designed to automatically detect "suspicious behaviour" seems doomed to failure (we all know that computers are rubbish by now - except the government, it seems).
On the other, creating checkpoints to scan people and their belongings is surely just playing into the hands of suicide bombers, who seem to like nothing better than to blow themselves up at security checkpoints. Create a bottleneck where people rub shoulders and jostle about (like the Luton Airport passport check), and you will attract the martyrs.
What possible good will it do, once somebody is in a crowd at a checkpoint, to discover that they're carrying an explosive device? If they know they've been rumbled, they'll just set it off anyway.
The same principle applies to the building of nukular power stations, doesn't it? Bomb magnets.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
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