Bruce Schneier examines the notorious sippy cup incident in which a mother was told she couldn’t take a cup of water for her infant through airport security, and gets right to the point:

Why is it that we all — myself included — believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power?

— TSA and the Sippy Cup Incident, Bruce Schneier, Schneier on Security, 18 June 2007

Yes, why is that? Continue reading →