14th August 2003, 6:42 PM
Um, well the baddies are ALSO without power, keep that in mind. How much less vulnerable would they be with power on to stuff like small pox or bombs anyway? I would certainly accept that RESPONSE to any attack is now cut down by a lot, but protection from said attack I doubt has decreased. I am willing to bet airports are all grounded there, meaning air terrorism is now ruled out as a means of attack, meaning in one way they are safer from it. No one's going to take advantage of metal detectors being down when there's no reason to get past those detectors in the first place now are they?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)