[Infowarrior] - Second Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest

[Richard Forno]

Announcing: Second Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest

The first Movie-Plot Threat Contest asked you to invent a horrific and
completely ridiculous, but plausible, terrorist plot. All the entrants were
worth reading, but Tom Grant won with his idea to crash an explosive-filled
plane into the Grand Coulee Dam.

This year the contest is a little different. We all know that a good plot to
blow up an airplane will cause the banning, or at least screening, of
something innocuous. If you stop and think about it, it's a stupid response.
We screened for guns and bombs, so the terrorists used box cutters. We took
away box cutters and small knives, so they hid explosives in their shoes. We
started screening shoes, so they planned to use liquids. We now confiscate
liquids (even though experts agree the plot was implausible)...and they're
going to do something else. We can't win this game, so why are we playing?

Well, we are playing. And now you can, too. Your goal: invent a terrorist
plot to hijack or blow up an airplane with a commonly carried item as a key
component. The component should be so critical to the plot that the TSA will
have no choice but to ban the item once the plot is uncovered. I want to see
a plot horrific and ridiculous, but just plausible enough to take seriously.

< - >

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/announcing_seco.html