{"id":50082,"date":"2015-04-15T10:14:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/well-theres-another-reason-not-to-go-to-major-league-baseball-games.html"},"modified":"2015-04-15T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T18:17:26","slug":"well-theres-another-reason-not-to-go-to-major-league-baseball-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/well-theres-another-reason-not-to-go-to-major-league-baseball-games.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, there’s another reason not to go to Major League Baseball games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not that I needed one. But having some fractional increase in my ticket go to pay for useless metal detectors, just so that MLB can look determined and counter-terrorismy? No thanks.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/04\/metal_detectors.html<\/a><\/del><\/p>\n

‘It’s an attitude I’ve seen before: “Something must be done. This is something. Therefore, we must do it.” Never mind if the something makes any sense or not. In reality, this is CYA security, and it’s pervasive in post-9\/11 America. It no longer matters if a security measure makes sense, if it’s cost-effective or if it mitigates any actual threats. All that matters is that you took the threat seriously, so if something happens you won’t be blamed for inaction. It’s security, all right –<\/del><\/i> security for the careers of those in charge.’<\/i><\/p>\n

(How critically important are these metal detectors against fiendish terrorists who are continually plotting to bomb a baseball game? Critically important enough that when the Rockies had problems with the detectors at their season opener, leaving some fans outside the game, they just decided to let them skip the metal detectors. http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/eye-on-baseball\/25145346\/rockies-fans-miss-start-of-home-opener-due-to-metal-detectors<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Not that I needed one. But having some fractional increase in my ticket go to pay for useless metal detectors, just so that MLB can look determined and counter-terrorismy? No thanks. https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/04\/metal_detectors.html ‘It’s an attitude I’ve seen before: “Something must be done. This is something. Therefore, we must do it.” Never mind if the something … Continue reading “Well, there’s another reason not to go to Major League Baseball games”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security","category-media-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CCQTVxOUIAA5HwU5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38402,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/trust-but-verify-only-works-if-you-can-actually-verify.html","url_meta":{"origin":50082,"position":0},"title":"Trust but verify only works if you can actually verify","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Aug-13 3:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Schneier's analysis is all correct so far as it goes, and in its fundamental analysis that society doesn't work without trust and when you get lied to too often, you simply can't trust.The problem is, there is no reliable (trustworthy) mechanism to verify that trust is well-placed in anything resembling\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38224,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/transparency-democracy-and-security.html","url_meta":{"origin":50082,"position":1},"title":"Transparency, Democracy, and Security","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Jul-13 11:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If you don't know the laws and judicial decisions being made, you can't be an informed participant in the civic life of the nation. \u00a0Secret FISA courts whose decisions and interpretations are not for our tender ears, rubber-stamping executive branch requests that are offered through assertion, not adversarial advocacy ...\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1659,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/29\/making_sense.html","url_meta":{"origin":50082,"position":2},"title":"Making sense","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 29-Nov-01 8:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Security has to make sense Peter Coffee's eWeek column makes sense, too. 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