By Ira Winkler

I am always amazed at what fools the media makes of themselves around Groundhog Day. The fact is that it is mass confusion that creates a media and tourism event for a town that would otherwise be unheard of. This is the way that we get a lot of myths proliferating in the security space. One person says it. It gets some stupid reporter interested, and everyone swears to it.

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What is security anyway? I invite you to recall the familiar scene: at least two camps are pitched approximately opposite one another and expert opinions are lofted high like battle standards; hooves stamp and nostrils flare at the scent of battle. Troops rally and charge, circle, regroup and charge again. Spectral warriors, wielding swords of wind, whip up a furious tornado, eventually tire and subsequently retire to dress imaginary wounds.

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