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Third Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest

For this contest, the goal is to create fear.  Not just any fear, but a
fear that you can alleviate through the sale of your new product idea.
There are lots of risks out there, some of them serious, some of them so
unlikely that we shouldn't worry about them, and some of them completely
made up.  And there are lots of products out there that provide security
against those risks.

Your job is to invent one.  First, find a risk or create one.  It can be
a terrorism risk, a criminal risk, a natural-disaster risk, a common
household risk -- whatever.  The weirder the better.  Then, create a
product that everyone simply *has to* buy to protect him- or herself
from that risk.  And finally, write a catalog ad for that product.

Blog post:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/third_annual_mo.html

The First Movie-Plot Threat Contest rules:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/announcing_movi.html
And winners:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/movieplot_threa_1.html. 
The Second Movie-Plot Threat Contest rules:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/announcing_seco.html
Semifinalists:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/second_annual_m.html
And winners:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/second_movieplo.html