Bruce Schneier’s launched his annual “Movie Plot Threat Contest,” in which he challenges his readers to come up with ridiculous threat-scenarios (think of blowing up an airplane armed with nothing but some optimistic misapprehensions about organic chemistry, Tang, and hydrogen peroxide). A condition of the competition is that your weird-ass threat has to be preventable by means of a snake-oil security product that you want to sell us (bonus points if deploying your product makes our lives hell — shoe-removing, liquid-confiscating indiginities!).
There’s a ton of great entries already — I like this one, from R. Serrano:
PROTECT your family!, SERVE your country!
Would you LIKE some terrorist bombing your son’s school with YOUR VERY OWN just stolen and filled with EXPLOSIVES car?
Don’t let this happen with CURARE SHOTS! An easy to mount hypodermic syringe hidden beneath the seat of your car prevents burglars, thieves and TERRORISTS to MISUSE your car in ways YOU COULD NEVER IMAGINE by literally stopping them on the seat of your car while a wireless silent alarm* warns the closest police station and a text message is sent to your cell phone**.
PROTECT your family AND SERVE your country well with CURARE SHOTS.
* Alarm sold separately.
** Text message service only available with selected providers.
(Thanks, Bruce!)