School Bus Drivers to Foil Terrorist Plots
Bruce Schneier is blogging about a new Homeland Security plan – to train school bus drivers to watch for people who are possibly casing their routes so they can hijack the bus, pack it full of explosives and drive it into a building.
This is total insanity. There is no way to think of and plan for all the possible ways that someone could perform a terrorist act.
And why would they hijack a school bus? Why not just rent a truck? Or a van? Or steal one?
Bruce says:
What should we do this with money instead? We should fund things that actually help defend against terrorism: intelligence, investigation, emergency response. Trying to correctly guess what the terrorists are planning is generally a waste of resources; investing in security countermeasures that will help regardless of what the terrorists are planning is much smarter.
Come on Homeland Security, waste some more of my money, I like it. Really!
