The Security Mentor

You may not know the name "Bruce Schneier". He wrote one of the classic textbooks on cryptography, entered a finalist into the national competition for a new cipher, and also knows how to step back and look at the bigger picture of security.

His latest free newsletter talks about how to prevent another 9/11 and how to defeat the aims of the terrorists. He points out that (duh) they mean to create terror, which means

Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic.

However serious the threat, he says

But our job is to remain steadfast in the face of terror, to refuse to be terrorized.

Read the whole things. It's worthwhile just for the discussion of what works and what doesn't.

Oh, before I forget, there was a post on a geek forum from someone with chemical warfare training about What could happen if terrorists got chemical weapons