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September 2001, Week 3

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Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]>
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Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:38:16 -0700
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Wirt writes:

>One of the things about all of these corrective scenarios is that they're all
>fixing the last threat, not the next one...

But it does prevent the last one from being repeated, since...

>I was greatly impressed at the level of sophistication, simplicity and
>cleverness of the plan that the terrorists put forward.

the number of people who can construct novel plans for things like this
is quite small compared to the number of people who are hard-put simply
to understand and re-use an old one.

-- Bruce


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