Security

Counter-Terror Tech: Cliche Slobber Slobber Cliche

Dear Reuters: It’s 2007. Which means we’ve all spent six years hearing about one counter-terror gizmo after the next. So can we stop stringing together slobbering cliches like these? Americans are facing a brave new world of post-Sept. 11 technology marvels that could soon find their way into billions of dollars of projected homeland security […]

Dear Reuters:

It's 2007. Which means we've all spent six years hearing about one counter-terror gizmo after the next. So can we stop stringing together slobbering cliches like these?

*Americans are facing a brave new world of post-Sept. 11 *technology marvels that could soon find their way into billions of dollars of projected homeland security spending.

Gee-whiz know-how* -- from swarms of tiny airborne sensors to ever-sharper satellite imagery -- is being developed by companies chasing potentially lucrative federal, state and local contracts to address 21st century security threats.*

Look, we all understand that it's hard to be Michael Chabon on deadline. But "gee-whiz know how"?!?! C'mon...

Love,

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