Echoing Bruce Schneier, because it needs to be done:

I would also like to urge everyone not to get wrapped up in the particulars of the terrorist tactics. We need to resist the urge to react against the particulars of this particular terrorist plot, and to keep focused on the terrorists’ goals. Spending billions to defend our trains and busses at the expense of other counterterrorist measures makes no sense. Terrorists are out to cause terror, and they don’t care if they bomb trains, busses, shopping malls, theaters, stadiums, schools, markets, restaurants, discos, or any other collection of 100 people in a small space. There are simply too many targets to defend, and we need to think smarter than protecting the particular targets the terrorists attacked last week.

Smart counterterrorism focuses on the terrorists and their funding — stopping plots regardless of their targets — and emergency response that limits their damage.

Also note the comment left by another user (”Felix_the_Mac”):

I live in the UK. I good make lots of points, however, the one thing which made me shout at the radio today was hearing Tony Blair say:

“We will not let these people change our way of life”

Blatant hypocracy, we have already changed:

1. ID Cards
2. Imprisonment without trial
3. Launching an illegal war.

(You may agree or disagree with the war but I believe that almost everybody in the UK acknowledges that it was illegal, i.e. not authorised force under the UN charter.)

British history is a tale of people gradually taking power away from the few. Now this process has gone into reverse.

See my old post about what security is for more of my thoughts, and see Bruce Schneier’s blog for a lot more intelligent analysis on security from an expert.

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