Fourth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest

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I am a member of this group under a different account. But...

 

I just received the monthly Cryptogram Newsletter published by Bruce Schneier. I thought the first article may be of interest to some here, or at least food for thought?

 

 

Fourth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest

 

 

 

Let's face it, the War on Terror is a tired brand. There just isn't enough action out there to scare people. If this keeps up, people will forget to be scared. And then both the terrorists and the terror-industrial complex lose. We can't have that.

 

We're going to help revive the fear. There's plenty to be scared about, if only people would just think about it in the right way. In this Fourth Movie-Plot Threat Contest, the object is to find an existing event somewhere in the industrialized world -- Third World events are just too easy -- and provide a conspiracy theory to explain how the terrorists were really responsible.

 

The goal here is to be outlandish but plausible, ridiculous but possible, and -- if it were only true -- terrifying. Entries should be formatted as a news story, and are limited to 150 words (I'm going to check this time) because fear needs to be instilled in a population with short attention spans. Submit your entry, by the end of the month, in comments to the blog post.

 

Submit your entry here:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/04/fourth_annual_m.html

 

An example from The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/feb-23-2009

 

The First Movie-Plot Threat Contest:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/announcing_movi.html

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/movieplot_threa_1.html

 

The Second Movie-Plot Threat Contest:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/announcing_seco.html

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/second_annual_m.html

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/second_movieplo.html

 

The Third Movie-Plot Threat Contest:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/third_annual_mo.html

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/third_annual_mo_2.html

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/third_annual_mo_1.html