How long will BombOrNot last?
I’m sure I’m not the only person to see Bomb Or Not? Training For Government Agents! and wonder how long it will be before they get a cease-and-desist threat.
My guess, it won’t be HotOrNot, who can recognize a good parody when they see one, but the Department of Homeland Security, which tends to see humor as a security risk.
DHS has already raised trademark claims against the Federation of American Scientists for ReallyReady.org, a critique-by-improvement of DHS’s anemic Ready.gov. They could even crib from this
We need a bit of Franklin D. Roosevelt here: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Or as Bruce Schneier puts it, “The surest defense against terrorism is to refuse to be terrorized.”
