Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/30/suspicious-package-at-train-st.html
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So it worked.
Surveillanception!
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Momma said there’d be days like this.
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Bureaucracy inaction
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“If you see something, say something” has got to be one of the dumbest outcomes of the 9/11 attacks.
If you ask amateurs to do your security work, don’t act surprised when you get amateur security as a result.
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The irony is palpable.
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Delicious!
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Experimental Security Theater: It’s a play within a play!
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Except that it simultaneously demonstrated that we don’t need it
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How ouroborosian.
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Yo, Dawg… I herd you like reporting suspicious activity…
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YCFS. I’m talking to you, suspicious package reporters.
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If said amateurs are racist, you will also get racist security theater.
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Obligatory:
I have to wonder how this happened. Somebody obviously wasn’t talking to somebody else (or rather multiple somebodies weren’t), but you’d think a whole lot of people at the station would know what the box was*. It seems like a random member of the public, who didn’t know what was going on, reported it to other people who weren’t connected to the station, and anyone who knew anything at the station was entirely cut out of the conversation.
*I suppose the alternative is that whoever installed the “security device” did so practically in secrecy and with an ironic disregard for security.
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There is a different way of doing this? If you don’t install the security secretly they will know and overcome your security, probably with a device that costs 1/1000th of your security device…
(ETA: Sarcasm tag: This is sarcastic. Sort of.)
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Except this is a “security device” in the sense that it’s a security-related reporting device. It doesn’t work unless everyone knows about it.
But how long did it take for someone to report it? That’s the key bit of information we’re missing. It might have taken hours. If it had been working, someone might have been able to use the device to report it immediately.
People at the station probably just do customer service. If a new security device is being installed they may not know anything about it.
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Colour me a surprised yellow. I thought the package contained a pop-up personal tent!
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