[funsec] Fun with (In)Security

[Drsolly]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Fergie wrote:

> Yeah, I saw that last night. :-)
> 
> All that smoke... but I digress.
> 
> What I meant to say is,given how porous the U.S. borders are, it
> makes one wonder just how serious they really are on the 'war on
> terror'.
 
I've never really understood why people conflate "war on terror" with "US 
porous borders". I can only think of two major (or minor, come to that) 
terrorist attacks on the USA in the last decade or so, and they didn't 
come from either Mexico or Canada.

Of the two major attacks I can think of, one came from a home-grown nutter 
(Oklahoma) and the other flew in legally via scheduled airlines. The 
anthrax stuff is unproven, but seems to be generally thought to be of 
US origin.