It amazes me that an attack which cost only a few hundred thousand dollars could provoke a decade of mass paranoia, a widely applauded loss of freedom, trillion

It amazes me that an attack which cost only a few hundred thousand dollars could provoke a decade of mass paranoia, a widely applauded loss of freedom, trillions of dollars in wasted wealth, billions of hours of wasted time, and many thousands of deaths. So, yes to more freedom, and please refuse to be terrorized https://www.schneier.com/essay-124.html https://www.schneier.com/essay-124.html . Freedom is the absence of coercion, and that is all the security I care to have. The chance of being murdered by a politically motivated hot-head is so low that it doesn't even register on my list of concerns.