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The problem isn't trying to protect against black swan events, it's convincing people that they are protecting them, especially those in congress writing the ch
by SoftwareMaven 14y ago
The problem isn't trying to protect against black swan events, it's convincing people that they are protecting them, especially those in congress writing the checks and the idiots who believe if you aren't reporting your suspicious travel mates, you are as bad as the terrorists.
An Israeli-style defense is far more likely to catch the black swan events, but it requires much more training for agents. We'd rather build an obscene list of everything you can't do and pay cloned storm troopers to go down each item on it.
- diego 14y agoIt's not either/or. Actual protection and the appearance of protection are separate problems, which is one of the reasons it is such a complex issue. Also, Israel and the US are not easy to compare. The types of threats, population sizes, and public opinion are so different that it probably would not make sense to go for the Israel approach in the US. That said, Israel is a testbed for approaches that the US sometimes adopts.