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I think this article is a great, sophisticated version of those chain emails that are targeted at women, telling them not to get into their car in some manner i
by euroclydon 16y ago
I think this article is a great, sophisticated version of those chain emails that are targeted at women, telling them not to get into their car in some manner in a parking lot.
- hugh3 16y agoI was fascinated while reading this, but eventually realized it was targeted more at paranoid loons than secret agents.
- jerf 16y agoI think you have to consider the matter from a Bayesian perspective before just labeling it as "for paranoid loons". If I behaved this way in my environment, I would pretty much be being a paranoid loon. On the other hand, if I were riding the New York subways every day, it would be nice if there were at least a few civilians keeping an eye out for things. (Not everybody, though; that's a recipe for hundreds of false positives.) There are other people who aren't being paranoid loons, like researchers who use animals; for them this is a real concern.