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"Too Much Information"

No, not another "Shave the Cheerleader, Shave the World" kind of post, rather it is a comment about the current headline over at the FBI.gov website. The interesting part begins with "So, what happens when...someting is amiss? First, our local WMD coordinator (there's one in each of our 56 field offices)..." and so on.

Really, it's an interesting read on how the government will react should, say, a bunch of birds fall dead in Austin.

Now, I'm not one to normally advocate "Security by Obscurity", but doesn't there come a point in time when we decide to not tip the enemy's hands on exactly what we would do during a crisis? "The key for us is that conference call..." Great. If I'm attacking, I now know to take out the local field office (or at least disrupt the local the WMD coordinator).

Just because of who I am, I have two theories about this article:
1. It's all PR to make people think they have a plan. Image is everything. So long as the American people think we have a plan, they won't panic and send the economy into the crapper.

2. They are simply moronic enough to show their hand. HOPEFULLY, there's quite a bit more to this hand (such as local law-enforcement heads having access to the WMD Directorate at FBI headquarters, thus removing the single-point-of-failure in the local WMD coordinator).

I'm hoping for the optimistic side of #2.

-Brian

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