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In the Line of Fire
1993 · Film · 128 min
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.
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more from that PDF (in the movie "In the line of fire")
Overall, the project has been a great success. The Secret Service wa able to work closely with the producers to make certain that our portrayal on the big creen was a positive one. There have been several films that depicted the Service or it employees as side i sue to the tory's actual plot. However, as Snow a erts, "It's a story told through the eyes of an agent, his problem , and his experiences." All things considered, it promi e to be a film that just may promote a greater intere t in the Service. "In addition to possibly being nominated for an academy award, I believe this movie will be good for our recruitment effort. It just may do for u what "Top Gun" did for the Navy," ays ASAIC Meyer. According to Snow, "From a recruitment tandpoint, this film will be excellent. This is an exceptional movie that wa re earched well and portrays the Service in a po itive light. If a film had to be made depicting the Service, isn't that the way it's supposed to be done?"
What a gifted writer.
A very close friend of mine's brother was bicyling back home after his first year of college and was struck by a drunk driver, he was left in a vegetative state for about 8 years before finally passing from urinary complications. The father, also a creative person, wrote "In the Line of Fire", if you ever saw that film with Clint Eastwood. They said it was the worst and best thing to ever happen to them; I still don't understand what it means.
I'm hoping they've implemented some form of localized EMP that you have to pass through now to leave, because large storage is so incredibly small now that it would be impossible to discern it from articles of clothing.
The "hard" part is really just getting the data off the computer in the first place, which is probably why they don't allow bringing in technology anymore.
I wonder how much of a micro computer could be smuggled in one or two parts at a time, stored in articles of clothing, with the intent of simply saving data to a micro SD card which would be the only thing you need to smuggle back out. You would need to be able to assemble the device without soldering.
I guess the easiest would be to build a digital camera to record the screen or photos instead of trying to plug into the computers themselves which probably have robust host intrustion detection and prevention. Or perhaps if you could just record the digital output of the computer before it reaches the monitor. That could be prevented with some form of HDCP though, I think.
This all sounds kind of like a science fiction movie (or In the Line of Fire or that Snowden movie) but it's an interesting thought exercise in any case.
And plastic isn't detected by a metal detector (there's a movie plot about this! [+]).
[+] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Line_of_Fire
but someone who is going to weaponize a drone isn't going to the hobby store. they are going to get the parts from elsewhere or they will seek underground marketplaces with bitcoin.
in the line of fire 1993 movie, john malkovich plays an assassin who creates a gun from toy car parts so the weapon can't be traced or even be suspected. he assembles it just before attempting the hit but it's foiled.
The most important quote in the article:
"It does look like the MakerBot part," says Stuart Offer of 3D-printing firm 3T RPD in Newbury, UK. "These 3D printed guns seem to have hit the headlines, but I've no idea why they take off so much," he says. "A little engineer in his shed with a mill down the bottom of the garden could make a proper metal barrel capable of firing a high-velocity bullet."
And that's what I have been discussing with friends. Is printing a 3D gun that much easier than building a proto-gun with metal parts?
I think they hit the headlines because the whole "the future is scary" appeals to the masses, or at least, "3D printed guns" sounds like something out of a movie (for instance, "In the Line of Fire").
Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) has issued a statement that he plans to push for an extension of the law banning undetectable firearms. The current law (100-649) will sunset in December of 2013.
> “Everyone’s seen the movie ‘In The Line of Fire,’ where one of the great bad guys, [played by] John Malkovich, labored at making a gun out of plastic and wood so it could get through metal detectors and he could assassinate the president,” US Senator Charles Schumer said yesterday.
There was also a composite gun used in 'In the Line of Fire', a Clint Eastwood movie from 1993.