Threat
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Now imagine millions of sweat bees choking the air around you, flesh-eating bacteria, the constant
threat
of a landmine going off or an unseen hippo capsizing your mokoro.
If they see me, they'll understand why I'm no
threat
in the ladies' room, but I can be threatened in the men's room."
Going to war with people who are not our enemy in places that are not a
threat
doesn't make us safe, and that applies whether it's in Iraq or on the Internet.
And the spider that may come out is no more
threat
to you than a lady bug or a butterfly.
I think number two is cyber
threat.
I think cyber is a
threat
in three ways: One way, and probably the most common way that people have heard about it, is due to the theft of intellectual property, so basically, foreign countries going in, stealing companies' secrets, and then providing that information to state-owned enterprises or companies connected to the government to help them leapfrog technology or to gain business intelligence that's then used to win contracts overseas.
I mean, first of all, a lot of people who look at risk and look at the numbers don't understand this belief that terrorism is still the number one
threat.
Now what you'll see people say publicly is there is no "but for" case, and so there is no case where, but for that, the
threat
would have happened.
CA: Now, you mentioned the
threat
of cyberattacks, and I don't think anyone in this room would disagree that that is a huge concern, but do you accept that there's a tradeoff between offensive and defensive strategies, and that it's possible that the very measures taken to, "weaken encryption," and allow yourself to find the bad guys, might also open the door to forms of cyberattack?
There's no
threat
involved.
It's a certain kind of test: Can you recognize an underlying
threat
and respond?
Those people are always the
threat
to the status quo, to what is considered acceptable.
But as soon as the
threat
is passed, the entrance is open again, and maybe there are situations in computer security where operating costs are low enough that we could just block access temporarily in response to an immediate threat, and then open it again, instead of trying to build a permanent firewall or fortress.
Big masculine threat, insinuating and slangy."
I'd love to tell you that I didn't flinch, but I was terrified, and when my fear subsided, I became obsessed with finding out how this happened, how animal rights and environmental activists who have never injured anyone could become the FBI's number one domestic terrorism
threat.
The latest was in Idaho just two weeks ago, and today we released a lawsuit challenging it as unconstitutional as a
threat
to journalism.
But apparently, even exposing stuff like that is a
threat.
He believed that sometimes you have to demo a
threat
to spark a solution.
In fact, thousands of people came out the next day to support the performing arts in Lahore, and this simultaneously thrilled and terrified Faizan, and he ran up to a woman who had come in with her two small children, and he said, "You do know there was a bomb here yesterday, and you do know there's a
threat
here today."
Take an inventory of all the forms of power that are at play in your city's situation: money, of course, people, yes, ideas, information, misinformation, the
threat
of force, the force of norms.
And it's now not just the nuclear threat; in our interconnected world, network breakdowns can cascade globally; air travel can spread pandemics worldwide within days; and social media can spread panic and rumor literally at the speed of light.
My colleagues' action was not the only death
threat
I have received, but it was the most dangerous one.
Often, these particular features have evolved as a response to the
threat
presented by the local fauna, in this case, grazing tortoises.
After the bomb threat, I was done.
I think this poses a serious civil liberties
threat.
A survivor sees a problem and deals with that problem before it becomes a
threat.
Each new set of rulers viewed its contents as a
threat
rather than a source of pride.
What's the fastest growing
threat
to Americans' health?
In the words of Dr. Robert Block, the former President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, "Adverse childhood experiences are the single greatest unaddressed public health
threat
facing our nation today."
That was not exceptional, we were told, and that particularly is on the periphery of the forests that are most under
threat.
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