Under a Gibbous Moon

This comes by way of Schneier on Security. A new scholarly paper from the American Journal of Forensic Medical Pathology that is cleverly titled, Use of a pig model to demonstrate vulnerability of major neck vessels to inflicted trauma from common household items.

A brief summary of this paper would be what every prisoner already knows, damn near anything can be used as a weapon in a pinch:

Commonly available items including a ball point pen, a plastic knife, a broken wine bottle, and a broken wine glass were used to inflict stab and incised wounds to the necks of 3 previously euthanized Large White pigs. With relative ease, these items could be inserted into the necks of the pigs next to the jugular veins and carotid arteries.

Now the biggest problem that I see with this is that the TSA will see this as a security hole that needs to be plugged as opposed to showing the futility of banned random crap. I’m afraid that this paper will cause us to all be flying naked soon.

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