[CyberAnt]

"security analyst suspects terrorists are testing the system"

Geeeee .. I wish I could get paid .. I thought of that over a week ago; and in fact there were several of us on FR who agreed that the terrorists might be testing the system.

[John H K]

I've always felt the test theory was nonsensical.

DRY RUNS are a different deal, as we know the 9/11 hijackers took the flights they later hijacked.

And hate to burst your bubble, but people have trotted out "It was a TEST!" for pretty much every single incident that people thought/hoped was a terror attack in the last 2 1/2 years, but turned out not to be. It's a theory that's a lot older than a week :-).

No point in wasting people in "tests" when they get caught.

Remember, AQ really doesn't have all that many people to work with...especially remotely competent ones. You're looking at hundreds at best.

And the negative of alerting security when caught massively outweighs whatever could be "learned" from a so-called "test."

[endthematrix]

FReepers are ahead of the issues, time and time again.