More Movie Plot Terrorist Threats

February 2nd, 2010 admin

The Foreign Policy website has its own list of movie-plot threats: machine-gun wielding terrorists on paragliders, disease-laden insect swarms, a dirty bomb made from smoke detector parts, planning via online games, and botulinum in the food supply. The site fleshes these threats out a bit, but it’s nothing regular readers of this blog can’t imagine for themselves. Maybe they should…


Originally posted on Schneier

 
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