From ge at linuxbox.org  Tue Jan  5 01:19:38 2010
From: ge at linuxbox.org (Gadi Evron)
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:19:38 +0200
Subject: [psysec] Reframing in the fight against airport full body scanners
Message-ID: <4B4293AA.1010208@linuxbox.org>

Full body scanners are becoming a reality following the latest near-miss 
terrorist attack (the undies bomber).

The old arguments on loss of privacy are fast losing traction in the 
face of practical need, public fear, and politicians looking for 
bandwagon theater.

Bandwagon theater, defined:
A combination of "jumping on the bandwagon" and "security theater", 
similar in purpose but directly opposite to the concept of a scape-goat, 
trying to show they do something so they can please the public.

New arguments are now being presented, to try and fight this unstoppable 
bandwagon theater force of full body scanners, trying to reframe the 
idea as bad now that the privacy concerns are marginalized.

Radiation risk (fear mongering, red herring):
Claims have been made that there is RADIATION risk.
The radiation appears to be so minor it doesn't even register, but it's 
a good argument, if a red-herring meant for fear mongering

But, it's RADIATION (run for your lives!), need I say more?

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/01/are-airport-full-body-scanners-a-health-menace.html

Child pornography (straw man):
Claims have been made that child pornography laws may be violated by 
using the machines. This is obviously a straw-man argument, which if has 
any basis in reality can easily be avoided.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/04/new-scanners-child-porn-laws

This campaign against full body scanners at airports, if it is indeed 
more than just background noise, is certainly fascinating to watch, even 
if I am against these machines.

To learn about reframing issues in politics, I strongly recommend the 
lectures from the 2007 Orwell conference, which I review here:
http://gevron.livejournal.com/25314.html

	Gadi.


-- 
Gadi Evron,
ge at linuxbox.org.

Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/

From pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz  Tue Jan  5 01:46:38 2010
From: pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:46:38 +1300
Subject: [psysec] Reframing in the fight against airport full body
	scanners
In-Reply-To: <4B4293AA.1010208@linuxbox.org>
Message-ID: <E1NRyVK-000565-6l@wintermute02.cs.auckland.ac.nz>

Gadi Evron <ge at linuxbox.org> writes:

>To learn about reframing issues in politics, I strongly recommend the
>lectures from the 2007 Orwell conference, which I review here:
>http://gevron.livejournal.com/25314.html

Another recent example of re-framing for political purposes was (allegedly)
that Dutch campaigners convinced the Dutch media to start referring to "voting
machines" as "voting computers", which was a significant factor in them being
rejected for use in the Netherlands.

Peter.

From ge at linuxbox.org  Sun Jan 10 11:34:48 2010
From: ge at linuxbox.org (Gadi Evron)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:34:48 +0200
Subject: [psysec] psychology of cyberspace ebook
Message-ID: <4B49BB58.30200@linuxbox.org>

http://www.psychsplash.com/2010/01/08/the-psychology-of-cyberspace/




-- 
Gadi Evron,
ge at linuxbox.org.

Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/

From ge at linuxbox.org  Sun Jan 10 13:27:29 2010
From: ge at linuxbox.org (Gadi Evron)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:27:29 +0200
Subject: [psysec] Funny! Mario & Luigi on Omegle: Password Social Engineering
Message-ID: <4B49D5C1.5090708@linuxbox.org>

http://i.imgur.com/vf09X.jpg

From ge at linuxbox.org  Wed Jan 13 23:19:07 2010
From: ge at linuxbox.org (Gadi Evron)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:19:07 +0200
Subject: [psysec] how to spot a sucker
Message-ID: <4B4E54EB.3000709@linuxbox.org>

http://rpaulwilson.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-spot-sucker.html