Instead of just barking when there is a threat, it will phone or e-mail its master if anyone comes prowling while nobody is at home.Businessmen and news editors are not the only ones seeking to exploit the insecurity.
Another irony: Opposed to the perception disseminated by the G.O.P., it's not the liberal elite exploiting the insecurities of the masses to gain and retain power, but a group of conservative elite playing the populist to those ends.
"employing the kind of hateful rhetoric and exploiting the insecurities of this nation, in much the same way that allowed Hitler and Mussolini to rise to power in the lead-up to World War II" (Christine Todd Whitman, former Republican governor of New Jersey).
Others are exploiting the insecurity to settle old scores and steal millions of dollars of cows.
Blum uses stock images of Asian-Americans as racial mascots with the inciting lines, "It may be because you're the wrong race". The implication is clear: this exploits the insecurity of Asian-Americans during the college admissions process in order to carry out an attack on affirmative action.
The tactics are unchanging: throughout, the advertisers exploit the viewers' insecurities, whether a doctor's fear of letting down a patient, or an individual's fear of failing at life.
It's a common assumption, based on the experience of the 1930s in particular, that the populist right is best placed to exploit the volatility and insecurity of slumps.
Activists fear international funding will begin to dry up after the soldiers leave, even as insecurity rises and Taliban insurgents seek to exploit the military vacuum and the government's lack of finances to pay soldiers, or kickstart the economy.
"Dark Territory" captures the troubling but engrossing narrative of America's struggle to both exploit the opportunities and defend against the risks of a new era of global cyber-insecurity.
Better to put cheap software-defined radios in the hands of penetration testers who can demonstrate the insecurity of those communications than to reserve the technology only for better-funded attackers who would exploit the same wireless communications in secret.
