The Security Mentor

Which is safer: a tape dispenser, or an explosion that blows up a tape dispenser?

via Bruce Schneier's blog, Police Service of Northern Ireland mistakes crime scene tape for a bomb. There's some reason to be twitchy in Northern Ireland, but still...

In the Netherlands, the Enschede bomb squad was called out and confined nearby people to their homes over one of their own transmitters.

Bruce Schneier argues that throwing money away on false alarms hurts security. The contrary point of view would be that they keep bomb squads in practice.