Wired's October issue includes a "Posts" essay by me on a cyberterrorism simulation that I attended during a homeland-security conference in Washington, D.C. ("Posts" is a middle-of-the-book section in Wired that features "Dispatches from the Wired frontier." Think of it as Wired's equivalent of the "Talk of the Town" section in The New Yorker.)
The first sentence begins with something that will soon be a falsehood ("As someone who considers himself a smarty-pants Washington writer..."). By the end of the month, I'll be a smarty-pants writer in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Shorter "Posts": "Set up by the Dartmouth Institute for Security Technology Studies, the simulation was a relatively low tech affair in which hackers and other evildoers attempted to do their worst to a hypothetical New England city called Harbortown. About a dozen of us got laptops and roles. I was the police operations manager. (Citizens: Be afraid.)"
Recycled Wired content: "To Boldly Go Where No Fan Has Gone Before," December 2005.
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