Ron says: "Bruce Schneier ran a contest to come up with a plausible movie plot about bringing down a commercial jet in a manner that would force the TSA to ban something innocuous and/or ubiquitous. I have boingboing to thank for winning this contest: I found out about it on your site. When my script wins an Oscar, I'll be sure to mention you guys in the acceptance speech, if the orchestra hasn't played me off the stage yet :)"
On June 5, I posted three semi-finalists out of the 334 comments:
* Butterflies and beverages; water must be banned.
* Dimethylmercury; security checkpoints must be banned, but of course they can't be. Oh, what to do!
* Oxy-hydrogen bomb; wires — earphones, power cables, etc. — must be banned.Well, we have a winner. I can't divulge the exact formula — because you'll all hack the system next year — but it was a combination of my opinion, popular acclaim in blog comments, and the opinion of Tom Grant (the previous year's winner).
I present to you: Butterflies and Beverages, posted by Ron.
