Does this include 9/11? I mean, hijacking planes to use them as bombers was an available strategy way before 9/11.
Nassim Taleb begins a book (Black Swan?) imagining what would have happened if a legislator had passed a bill that would avoid it before 2001… We would never realize how many lives it’d have spared. And that’s the most tragic to me: a wrongdoer needs only to get a new idea for an effective way of spreading destruction, but we would have a hard time to convince people that Tylenol poisoning is an eminent threat before many people died.
Perhaps we could mitigate this risk if there were an institution to gather those destructive ideas, analyze them, and recommend strategies to authorities for mitigating those risks.
Also, I think it’s implicit, but maybe it should be openly stated: internet has made this problem worse, since it’s made it easy to spread widely this type of idea.
Does this include 9/11? I mean, hijacking planes to use them as bombers was an available strategy way before 9/11. Nassim Taleb begins a book (Black Swan?) imagining what would have happened if a legislator had passed a bill that would avoid it before 2001… We would never realize how many lives it’d have spared. And that’s the most tragic to me: a wrongdoer needs only to get a new idea for an effective way of spreading destruction, but we would have a hard time to convince people that Tylenol poisoning is an eminent threat before many people died. Perhaps we could mitigate this risk if there were an institution to gather those destructive ideas, analyze them, and recommend strategies to authorities for mitigating those risks. Also, I think it’s implicit, but maybe it should be openly stated: internet has made this problem worse, since it’s made it easy to spread widely this type of idea.