Monday, October 29, 2012

It's Called Wargaming, But...

In New York, a university professor asked students to plot a terrorist attack.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cops-disgusted-after-nyu-asks-students-to-plot-a-hypothetical-terrorist-attack/

The purpose of the exercise was, of course, to learn how to thwart a terrorist attack. Duh. It's like the way you might plan a building, a security system, even your search for lost keys. "If I were a building, where would I break down? If I were a burglar, where would I get in? If I were a key, where would I hide?" From analyzing each phase of a terrorist plot, future counter-terrorists get strategies for blocking future plots.

But how did this information leak out to people who don't understand the idea? Was it enough, in the way of security, to have students printing a disclaimer about their good intentions on each page of their hypothetical terrorist strategies? Should hypothetical terrorist strategies have been printed outside the classroom? Should they have been keyed into computers that link to the Internet?

Professor Maras was doing the same sort of thing our military service routinely does, but she deserves a slap on the wrist for not observing military security precautions.

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