Giving It Away

By James Rummel

This essay discusses how the police in Gainesville, Georgia have issued a warning on their Facebook page. It seems there is some concern that the bumper stickers adorning the family minivan can be used by criminals to glean all sorts of valuable information. How many people are in the house, where the kids go to school, is there a dog as a pet. Next thing you know, the bad guys are boldly breaking in to what they already know as a place where no one can resist them.

There is some precedent to such thinking. The popular crime novel The Silence of the Lambs (1988) features a serial killer who slaughters entire families within minutes of gaining entry to their home. He is virtually unstoppable because he knows everything there is before ever making his move, arriving in the middle of the night with a counter to every lock and security measure. The twist is that the killer works at a company that develops film and photographs. (Remember when people sent their photos away to be developed before they could look at them?)

He chooses his victims based …Read the Rest

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