The Growth in Security Engineering - Knowing the Borats from Bombers

Security engineering has a rich future.  Adam Gopnik points this out in his New Yorker column on the "rise and rise" of Florida crime fiction (In the Back Cabana).  The article gives a rundown on crime writer - reporter - Florida observer Carl Hiassen.  The following comments could be the introduction to a strategic plan for security engineering services:

"One need think only of the recently concluded story of the Tsarnaev brothers, fifteen hundred miles from Miami, to recognize this truth: the causal passage from dormitory weed to mass murder, the citywide lockdown that begins after the terrorists find themselves, completely by chance, in a 7-Eleven, that some other thugs have casually decided to rob.  Hiaasen's commentary on American violence underlines this: "These days, anybody with a laptop and a grudge can arrange a massacre on a shoestring budget.  You don't need special training.  You don't even need to be very smart.  All you need is the one dark impulse."

To imagine contemporary American horrors, you need an imagination that can take in the trivial and the terrible in one glance, finding the dark impulse turns Borats into bombers.  From night cities of sinister conspiracies to a sunlit country of grotesque coincidences.  It sounds like home."