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New term: "Security Theater"
Posted by David Hardy · 20 October 2006 09:15 AM
Wikipedia has it. It's security measures designed as theater, to convince people something is being done, rather than to actually render something more secure.
[via Lew Rockwell.com.
Comments
Bruce Schneier, who coined the phrase "security theater" publishes a free monthly email newsletter called Crypto-Gram, http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram.html, in which he talks frequently about current examples of security theater, as well as other security issues. I always find it an interesting read.
Posted by: wrangler5 at October 25, 2006 06:30 AM