Opening book details…
Can I read The Myth of Homeland Security on EtoBox?
The Myth of Homeland Security by Marcus J. Ranum is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Myth of Homeland Security about?
"As I write this, I'm sitting in a restaurant in a major U.S. airport, eating my breakfast with a plastic knife and fork. I worked up quite an appetite getting here two hours early and shuffling in the block-long lines until I got to the security checkpoint where I could take off my shoes, remove my belt, and put my carry-on luggage through the screening system . "What's going on? It's homeland security. Welcome to the new age of knee-jerk security at any price. Well, I've paid, and you've paid, and we'll all keep paying-but is it going to help? Have we embarked on a massive multibillion-dollar boondoggle that's going to do nothing more than make us feel more secure? Are we paying nosebleed prices for "feel-good" measures? . "This book was painful to write. By nature, I am a problem solver. Professionally I have made my career out of solving complex problems efficiently by trying to find the right place to push hard and make a difference. Researching the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, CIA, INS, the PATRIOT Act, and so forth, one falls into a rabbit's hole of interdependent lameness and dysfunction. I came face to face with the realization that there are gigantic bu
Who reads The Myth of Homeland Security?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Marcus J. Ranum
- Publisher
- Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley Pub.
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780471458791
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Computer Science, Social Science, Military
