Editing Bruce Schneier (section)

=== Homeland security ===
Schneier has said that [[homeland security]] money should be spent on [[Intelligence agency|intelligence]], investigation, and [[Emergency service|emergency response]].<ref name="movie_plots">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2005/09/68789 |title=Terrorists Don't Do Movie Plots |date=2005-09-08 |magazine=[[Wired News]] |author=Schneier, Bruce}}</ref> Defending against the broad threat of terrorism is generally better than focusing on specific potential terrorist plots.<ref name="movie_plots" /> According to Schneier, analysis of intelligence data is difficult but is one of the better ways to deal with global terrorism.<ref name="homeland_insec">{{cite web |url=https://www.schneier.com/essay-032.html |title=Homeland Insecurity |date=2004-01-09 |author=Schneier, Bruce |access-date=2011-04-08}}</ref> Human intelligence has advantages over automated and computerized analysis, and increasing the amount of intelligence data that is gathered does not help to improve the analysis process.<ref name="homeland_insec" /> Agencies that were designed around fighting the [[Cold War]] may have a culture that inhibits the sharing of information; the practice of sharing information is more important and less of a security threat in itself when dealing with more decentralized and poorly funded adversaries such as al Qaeda.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Fixing-intelligence-failures-3202795.php |author=Schneier, Bruce |publisher=[[SFGate]] |date=2010-01-15 |access-date=2011-04-08 |title=Fixing intelligence failures – SFGate}}</ref>

Regarding [[PETN]]—the explosive that has become terrorists' weapon of choice—Schneier has written that only swabs and dogs can detect it. He also believes that changes to airport security since 11 September 2001 have done more harm than good and he defeated [[Kip Hawley]], former head of the Transportation Security Administration, in an ''[[The Economist|Economist]]'' online debate by 87% to 13% regarding the issue.<ref>"International terrorism: AQAP tries again: Good intelligence work still leaves questions over airport security", ''[[The Economist]]'', dated 12 May 2012.</ref> He is widely credited with coining the term "[[security theater]]" to describe some such changes.

====Movie plot threat====
"Movie-plot threat" is a term Schneier coined that refers to very specific and dramatic [[terrorism|terrorist]] attack scenarios, reminiscent of the behavior of terrorists in movies, rather than what terrorists actually do in the real world.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.vice.com/en/article/2014-will-not-be-the-year-of-online-murder/| title= 2014 Will Not Be the Year of the First 'Online Murder' | author=Ben Makuch | work=Motherboard Vice.com| date= 8 October 2014 |access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref> Security measures created to protect against movie plot threats do not provide a higher level of real security, because such preparation only pays off if terrorists choose that one particular avenue of attack, which may not even be feasible. Real-world terrorists would also be likely to notice the highly specific security measures, and simply attack in some other way. The specificity of movie plot threats gives them power in the public imagination, however, so even extremely unrealistic security theater countermeasures may receive strong support from the public and legislators. Among many other examples of movie plot threats, Schneier described banning [[Baby transport|baby carrier]]s from [[Rapid transit|subway]]s, for fear that they may contain explosives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/exploding_baby.html|title=Schneier on Security: Exploding Baby Carriages in Subways|last=Schneier|first=Bruce|date=October 11, 2005 |quote=And if we ban [[baby carriage]]s from the subways, and the terrorists put their bombs in [[duffel bag]]s instead, have we really won anything?}}</ref> Starting in April 2006, Schneier has had an annual contest to create the most fantastic movie-plot threat.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/announcing_movi.html|title=Schneier on Security: Announcing: Movie-Plot Threat Contest|last=Schneier|first=Bruce|date=April 2006 }}</ref> In 2015, during the 8th and {{as of|2022|February|17|lc=y}} the last one, he mentioned that the contest may have run its course.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schneier |first1=Bruce |title=Eighth Movie-Plot Threat Contest Semifinalists |url=https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/05/eighth_movie-pl.html |website=Schneier on Security |date=May 14, 2015 |access-date=17 February 2022}}</ref>