IT’S SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK
Dec. 11th, 2012 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogA belated follow-up to my post about Christopher Walken’s evil plan to destroy Silicon Valley:
An economist has rated the plausibility of James Bond villain schemes (or at least the ones that rely on illegal market manipulation to make a fortune).
It’s a pretty interesting example of how so many evil-villain movie plots sound plausible if you don’t actually know how things work in real life.
Also, this is more relevant than it sounds – Bruce Schneier has been pointing out for years that many of the security tactics and policies employed by the US govt to combat terrorism are often designed to counter what he calls “movie plot threats” – a.k.a. specific scenarios that sound plausible if yr watching a Hollywood thriller but extremely unlikely in real life, and regardless of how plausible they are, it's a waste of time spending trillions of dollars to defend against specific attacks, most of which would never work anyway.
Except for sharks with lasers. That’s definitely possible.
Implausible,
This is dF
An economist has rated the plausibility of James Bond villain schemes (or at least the ones that rely on illegal market manipulation to make a fortune).
It’s a pretty interesting example of how so many evil-villain movie plots sound plausible if you don’t actually know how things work in real life.
Also, this is more relevant than it sounds – Bruce Schneier has been pointing out for years that many of the security tactics and policies employed by the US govt to combat terrorism are often designed to counter what he calls “movie plot threats” – a.k.a. specific scenarios that sound plausible if yr watching a Hollywood thriller but extremely unlikely in real life, and regardless of how plausible they are, it's a waste of time spending trillions of dollars to defend against specific attacks, most of which would never work anyway.
Except for sharks with lasers. That’s definitely possible.
Implausible,
This is dF
