April 02, 2007


Bruce Schneier's Second Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest sounds awesome:

Make the TSA ban wristwatches. Or laptop computers. Or polyester. Or zippers over three inches long. You get the idea.

Your entry will be judged on the common item that the TSA has no choice but to ban, as well as the cleverness of the plot. It has to be realistic; no science fiction, please. And the write-up is critical; last year the best entries were the most entertaining to read.

My entry would involve getting a length of wire (from headphones?) burning hot by using it to short out a fully charged laptop battery wrapped in polyester shirts and pressed against the fuselage, but I've already read that idea in at least two places on the respectable parts of the web, so I think I'll just be a passenger (ha!) for this year's contest. Furthermore, last year's winner blew up the Grand Coulee Dam and the comments already posted to this year's announcement are pretty funny; I doubt I can compete with either.
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