Centralized Insecurity

England is one of the most heavily-monitored Western societies, but that didn't stop terrorists from planting two bombs in London yesterday.

How much terror work had already escaped the notice of England's surveillance?

• They made the plans.
• They bought the materials.
• They built the bombs.
• They put the bombs into the cars.
• They drove into/around London.
  

Yet here's an admission from the article:

Counter-terrorism officials were last night fearful of further attacks, and were candid about the limits of how much they could know about the scale of the threat.

Centralized security is not security, and can never stay ahead of all evil-doers. It is merely a single point of failure, waiting to be exploited.

Posted on Jun 30, 2007 at 12:22:04 PM EDT.