War on Terror overblown: Microsoft
Steve RileyTECH.ED
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He prefers to tell his own kids that "...most adults are kind and honest and will help you if you need helping. But no adult needs your help to find their dog." Teach them to recognise the attacks, rather than react negatively to an imagined fear.
And this goes all the way up to the US's so-called "War on Terror". According to Steve, are any of us really made safer by taking our shoes off to go through metal detectors? Surely X-ray scanners which can see right through people's clothing is an unacceptable breach of privacy? At the very least, do we want to live in a society where this is the accepted norm?
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These are sobering thoughts, and they do make you take a second look at the vast amounts of money and effort going into security "measures" which do much to remove personal liberty and intrude in our daily existence, yet prove remarkably ineffective at actually stopping anyone determined to succeed.
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