Judging by Bruce Schneier's review of Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger, a new book by Harvey Molotch, this is a must-read: The common thread in Against Security is that effective security comes less from the top down and more from the bottom up.
Against Security: A Sociologist Looks At Security Theater
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
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