Bruce Schneier announced the winner of his Second Movie-Plot Threat Contest.
The 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. Make the TSA ban wristwatches. Or laptop computers. Or polyester. Or zippers over three inches long. You get the idea.
The winner was a fun story probably inspired by this post.
2 comments:
I wrote the story, and it was indeed inspired by the blog post you mention. In fact, I cited that blog post at the bottom of the story (along with a chemistry cite), to acknowledge Theodore's cool experiment providing the visual clue that is what makes the story nifty.
Thanks for the comment. Great story and congrats for winning the contest. I missed the citation and found the story independently via a google search IIRC for the butterfly species.
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