[funsec] Who on funsec is in the "Main Core" database?

[Imri Goldberg]

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008 22:37:24 CDT, Gadi Evron said:
>
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>> That's the "lovely" thing about living in Israel, the security services 
>> are too preoccupied with trying to prevent the next terrorist attack to 
>> remotely care about us security hacktivists.
>>     
>
> See, that's the big difference - *your* security forces are actually working
> on preventing the *next* attack.  Ours are busy playing security theatre
> with making it look like they're Doing Something to prevent the *last* attack.
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Regarding security theater. In Israel many things are also regarded by civilians as security theater. Sometimes it is indeed 'just a show' and sometimes the guard checking bags at the mall stops the suicide bomber. (This actually happened more than once.)
Even when it is (partly) 'just a show', it intimidates terrorists, and prevents them from trying. Many terrorists decided to detonate themselves outside instead of trying their luck with the guard. In these cases, I also see no harm in letting people feel a bit more secure.

Cheers,
Imri

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