Following on from Active Growth’s post on Bank of Ireland security, I didn’t want AIB to feel left out. They’ve an even worse card security procedure, which they continue to use despite my repeated complaints. Picture the scene, if you will. Something fishy is going on on your credit card (normally it’s small value internet [...]
April 14th, 2009 at
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Very interesting, although slightly predictable, report from the University of Michigan. Things that are difficult to pronounce are deemed more risky. This happens from food additives to foreign countries to individual people. Abstract Low processing fluency fosters the impression that a stimulus is unfamiliar, which in turn results in perceptions of higher risk, independent of [...]
If you listened to the various TV and radio vox-pops over the last few days, following the tragic murders in East Wall, Howth and Ranelagh, and even Dick Roche’s hold up in Wicklow, you’d think the murder rate was soaring and the country was going to pot. But what’s the real situation? In reality, the [...]
December 19th, 2008 at
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In Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris. Haven’t been here for years, but remember vaguely not liking it. Now I know why. It takes 15 minutes to get from the runway to the terminal building. That’s not including the time required to get the gantries in place, etc – just taxiing time. Security is both shite [...]
November 9th, 2008 at
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Random Rocks,
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Spotted some good, sensible security on the DC Metro (part surface, part overhead, part underground metropolitan railway) yesterday. Apologies for the bad picture quality, but I was trying to take the photo without getting arrested for being a terrorist (the irony)… The text reads: Hey, is that your bag? If you see someone leave something [...]
Very interesting article from Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic. He, working with Bruce Schneier, tried to get caught going through airport security with fake boarding passes, carrying large amounts of liquids and generally looking suspicious. All to no avail. Some of the best bits: During one secondary inspection, at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, I [...]
October 17th, 2008 at
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Parliamentary Questions from Ruairi Quinn TD have shown that there’s been a significant increase this year in the number of laptops and other data devices stolen or missing from Government hands. Back in January, he put down a series of Dáil questions (PQs) which showed that more than 100 devices had gone missing between 2002 [...]
October 1st, 2008 at
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At least three places I’ve been to regularly have blown up in recent months – all of them places I felt (relatively) safe in while I was there. I’m sure this isn’t something many readers will relate to particularly. But not many readers have the travel background I have. Two weeks ago, a truck bomb [...]
October 1st, 2008 at
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At least three places I’ve been to regularly have blown up in recent months – all of them places I felt (relatively) safe in while I was there. I’m sure this isn’t something many readers will relate to particularly. But not many readers have the travel background I have. Back in November last year was [...]
September 29th, 2008 at
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Bruce Schneier is talking sense again (as always!). At the moment, airport security will do one of two things when they catch you with something you’re not allowed bring on a plane: a) take it off you and let you go on your way; b) arrest you and charge you with terrorism. The latter is [...]
