{"id":2848,"date":"2008-08-20T13:27:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T13:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/20\/security-theater\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T13:27:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T13:27:39","slug":"security-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/20\/security-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, Union, like most other colleges and universities, installed a new emergency alert system, which they test much more frequently than it can possibly require. This always produces a flurry of emails alerting us to the upcoming test, and then the test message itself (which is also read over loudspeakers across campus). The test message (which just showed up in my inbox) begins:<\/p>\n

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This is a test of Union’s Emergency Alert Notification System. In the event of a real emergency this email would provide relevant alert info[rmation]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I always want this to be followed by “As this is only a test, here’s some irrelevant trivia: The capital of Djibouti is Djibouti.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, Union, like most other colleges and universities, installed a new emergency alert system, which they test much more frequently than it can possibly require. This always produces a flurry of emails alerting us to the upcoming test, and then the test message itself (which is also read… Continue reading Security Theater<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}