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Wanted: One imaginable threat, plus remedy

Opinion
Apr 8, 20081 min

Security guru Bruce Schneier is seeking entries for his “Third Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest.”

Your job is to invent one. First, find a risk or create one. It can be a terrorism risk, a criminal risk, a natural-disaster risk, a common household risk — whatever. The weirder the better. Then, create a product that everyone simply has to buy to protect him- or herself from that risk. And finally, write a catalog ad for that product.