Archive for January, 2010

Northwest Flight 253: How Do We Reconcile the Risk Posed by a Failed Attempt?

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Sometime around the end of 2009, in the wake of Abdulmutallab's failed attempt to bring down Northwest flight 253, I was having a conversation about the incident.  My fellow converser expressed hesitation to declare the incident a security breach.  Her hesitation was rooted in the fact that the attempt was ...