[funsec] How to ensure the market crashes

[Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah]

I'm sorry, but this *is* relevant to security: you can either file it under bad social 
engineering, or really, really stupid ways to deal with an emergency.

Even psychologists can tell you this doesn't work.  The way to get people to buy 
into a risky proposition is to reduce the apparent adverse consequences for the 
position you want people to take, not to increase the negative effects on the 
other side.  And we know (we have just had yet another example in the United 
Airlines "old news" case) that the "market" reacts very, very badly to rumours.

(No, I'm not interested in the politics of it.  It's just brinksmanship of the very 
worst kind.)

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/09/23/bailout-push.html

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