Yesterday at BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow had a link to this recent post by computer security expert Bruce Schneier commenting on an FBI notice sent to state and local officials saying that “terrorists might try to get jobs as school bus drivers”. Not that there were any actual reported cases of this happening, merely that someone thought this was something terrorists might try.
So Cory added a few of his own suggestions for things to warn people about. I liked this one especially:
Terrorists could infiltrate the world’s car companies and manufacture large, fuel-inefficient vehicles like Hummers. Once America has gone all SUV, the resulting carbon emissions would contribute to polar melting and global warming, causing devastating hurricanes through the southwest, killing and displacing millions of Americans. Ban car companies now, or the terrorists have won.
