User blog comment:Deadcoder/Petition to Allow Verbatim/@comment-452-20150918174732/@comment-452-20150924211026

When freedoms are traded for security after an incident, this is referred to as "the terrorists winning", because the people responsible for the incident have caused the loss of those freedoms.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_terrorists_have_won

While it is often as misused as the phrase "think of the children!", trading freedom for security anything is never a good thing.

In this specific case, this scenario could have happened at any point during the last 10 years, but it didn't, so the kneejerk increase in security is just like when an inexperienced admin protects all of the pages on a wiki due to minor vandalism, simply because it's possible that more vandalism might occur in the future.