Morris, of Tripwire Operations Group, said tripwire type devices are not targeted to any specific type of person.
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The tripwire indicated the attacker was more sophisticated than previously believed.
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Esper said U.S. troops should not be likened to a tripwire.
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The blast may have been triggered by a tripwire, police say.
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Tripwire could give clues "The use of a tripwire is far less discriminating than leaving parcel bombs at residences and suggests that the latest victims were not specifically targeted," the global think tank Stratfor Threat Lens said.
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His emotions are on a tripwire, causing some people to keep their distance.
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The very existence of U.S. troops in South Korea is a sufficient tripwire.
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His fourth was set off using a tripwire across the Travis Country sidewalk.
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Beneath that stupid, pleading smile strains the tripwire of anger ready to explode.
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Mailed explosive Two days after the tripwire blast, the bomber's tactics shifted yet again.
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The system, called Tripwire, detects websites that were hacked, as is detailed in this study.
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The more than 28,000 U.S. forces serve as a military tripwire against North Korean aggression.
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NATO disagrees, insisting that the four battalions are a tripwire for engaging the whole alliance.
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But I also fear that faulty execution could be the tripwire that brings it down.
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Police think the explosion may have been triggered by a tripwire attached to the package.
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Pressure will cause the tripwire to snap, as will a change in the salinity of nematocysts.
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While entering the police compound, they set off a tripwire bomb, but no one was hurt.
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One "looked like a fish" and was triggered with a tripwire made of string, she said.
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The result is that U.S. forces still provide a tripwire against Assad, Erdogan and Iranian Gen.
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The fact that a tripwire set it off meant anyone walking by could have been maimed.
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The alliance has started to rotate tripwire forces through them and has cobbled together rapid-reaction forces.
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Later, on Sunday, a package bomb exploded in the Travis Country neighborhood, set off by the tripwire.
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We could have been on that street and maybe the tripwire was there already, I don't know.
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The "DayTripper," a laser tripwire developed by a coder who goes by dekuNukem is what I need.
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"I'm not one to ... classify them as a tripwire and sacrifice them, if you will," he said.
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That device was left on the side of a road and triggered by a tripwire, police said.
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Historical comparisons, especially to concentration camps, have become a fraught tripwire in the national debate over immigration.
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Yemen could prove the "tripwire" in the region as it directly strikes Saudi Arabian energy targets, Croft said.
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A door might open onto a live tripwire, another might introduce some item of melodrama — a photograph, say.
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The suspected tripwire explosive had similarities to the previous three explosives, but it was more sophisticated, authorities said.
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The explosive device which may have used a tripwire shows the bombmaker's expertise and training, according to Stratfor.
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In the fourth blast, a device Sunday was triggered by a tripwire, injuring two white men, police said.
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The pictures share a quality with certain tripwire-activated photos of wildlife after dark: leaping deer under surveillance.
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"I wouldn't say we're at a tripwire yet, but we're getting there," said John Kilduff, partner with Again Capital.
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A swathe of northern Syria has become a Kurdish enclave, protected by a tripwire of some 2,000 US troops.
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And the alliance plans to deploy small military units to new members, creating a needed tripwire against Russian pressure.
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The tripwire device used in Sunday's explosion targeted random victims who just happened to be walking past, police said.
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The Marines at Con Thien were the human equivalent of a tripwire, there to block North Vietnamese ground incursions.
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And when multiple stress fractures already exist—the result of decades of mediocre leadership—all that's required is a tripwire.
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"The number of compromised accounts is what jumps out as unusual," says Tim Erlin of Tripwire, another online-security firm.
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North Korea, South Korea, or the United States -- knowingly or unknowingly -- could cross an ill-defined tripwire with horrific consequences.
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The new deployments are a more serious tripwire to deter a war that NATO leaders must now at least contemplate.
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But Mr. Moore tends to tripwire his own sermons in ways guaranteed to provoke thought, laughter and red-blooded rage.
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"In the NHS, the technology they are using it out of date," said Paul Edon of cyber security group Tripwire.
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"They were appalled by what has happened since Charlottesville and yesterday was the tripwire," said one member of the panel.
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They bought clothes, an iPad, DVDs — just to make sure they didn't hit the tripwire that would jeopardize their benefits.
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They also booby-trap their illicit plantations, most often with a homemade gun built from a tripwire, spring, and metal pipe.
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In Australia they serve as a tripwire force, deployed under an agreement reached in 2011 during President Barack Obama's "Asia rebalance".
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"Tripwire" (2011), a light, sound and motion installation built with the artist Jean-Michel Albert, heralded more genuinely interdisciplinary, multimedia work.
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In many cases the tripwire for murderous sprees can be an event that unravels their lives—losing a job, for example.
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Police say the bomb that injured them had been placed by the side of the road, then triggered by a tripwire.
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An infrared laser Tripwire sensor included in the box can also be plugged into the camera to support trigger shot scenarios.
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Nominees must answer whether they have paid all local, state and federal taxes, including those for household employees — a common tripwire.
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The Daytripper does that all for you, using a laser tripwire that automatically hides contraband apps or websites whenever it's triggered.
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Perhaps the ultimate question is whether Italy or some other economic tripwire could plunge the world into a new financial crisis.
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But the bombing that used a tripwire could give clues about the assailant, the global think tank Stratfor Threat Lens said.
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These include "tripwire" terms such as the "sword of Allah" or "day of the sword", associated with the writings of past attackers.
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These nematocysts all work independently; each one has a tripwire, which causes venom to be pushed out in little spikes, shown below.
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Listen to the premiere of lead single "Tripwire" below, and also check out the debut of their desert wasteland-shot EP trailer.
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Tortoises that hit a tripwire withdraw into their shells rather than retreat, while pangolins curl over the wire into a defensive ball.
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On Sunday night, a device that police believe used a tripwire exploded in a residential area and injured two men, police said.
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" It's a tripwire response for Jason, who knows Janet always responds "Not a girl" when she is referred to as a "girl.
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"Whoever is doing this is just trying to elicit a fear or disrupt something," said Ryan Morris, founder of Tripwire Operations Group.
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In an age of hyperpublic living, every person, company and brand is one tripwire away from a precipitous fall and a furious backlash.
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It can even be something like a key card, said Tim Erlin, director of IT security and risk strategy for cybersecurity firm Tripwire.
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Laws governing the sale of guns are a hurdle for terrorists, and alert firearms dealers provide an additional tripwire against would-be jihadists.
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Another possible tripwire is the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, which lies between Lithuania and Poland and is home to the Russian Baltic fleet.
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Trump would pull out the few hundred U.S. troops supporting Kurdish forces in Northern Syria and acting as a tripwire for U.S. intervention.
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It escalated this week when the bomber rigged a tripwire with an explosive, and two days later, sent a package bomb through FedEx.
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The suspected tripwire explosive suggests that the bombmaker or makers have a "higher level of sophistication than maybe we initially thought," Manley said.
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Earlier this month, the bombing suspect left packages with explosives on doorsteps overnight and rigged a tripwire to explode on a public trail.
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Some 2000 German soldiers are stationed in Lithuania, leading a multinational "tripwire" force which would be in the front line of any Russian incursion.
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It also integrates with a number of major security testing tools and vulnerability scanners, including Black Duck, Nessus, Fortify, Tripwire, Checkmarx, Rapid7 and Veracode.
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Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of "Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World."
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There was some kind of mental tripwire between me and Hitman that I hit every time I loaded it into my Steam shopping cart.
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The fourth bomb may have been ignited using a tripwire, while the other three blasts went off when packages were touched, according to Manley.
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The first three devices were in packages that were left on doorsteps, but the fourth was triggered by a tripwire strung across a sidewalk.
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The president seemingly neglected the briefing papers warning of the dire consequences of a power vacuum created by withdrawing the 1,000-strong tripwire force.
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"What we do understand now, is that the possibility exists this device was triggered in a different mechanism -- that being a tripwire," he said.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads With a magnesium flash triggered by a tripwire, George Shiras shot some of the world's first nocturnal wildlife photographs.
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They now act as a tripwire in any major Syrian government assault, potentially triggering a wider escalation with Turkey if there is no political deal.
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The tripwire bomb, for example, would have to be done in broad daylight, at dusk or shortly after, on a residential street in plain view.
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"With this tripwire, this changes things," Christopher H. Combs, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.'s San Antonio office, told reporters on Monday.
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In the fourth blast, on Sunday, a device was triggered by a tripwire, injuring two white men in an area where most residents are white.
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A tripwire tied to a "caution, children at play" sign detonated when it was breached, leaving two men, ages 22 and 23, hospitalized, police said.
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In essence, the purpose of the relatively tiny tripwire force is to die gloriously and call for their brethren to come and avenge their deaths.
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Tripwire interviewed more than 220 security professionals at the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, NV which runs from July 30 to August 4.
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That giving infant formula to them is so controversial speaks to a policy tripwire few outside the humanitarian realm even know exists: global "breastfeeding first" policies.
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Timeline of the bombings The latest device -- which was triggered by a tripwire -- shows "a higher level of sophistication, a higher level of skill," he said.
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"Winged Victory" contains a hot-blue mini version of the Louvre's Hellenistic masterpiece and a hot-pink tripwire that echoes the minimal art of Fred Sandback.
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Just as Hokkaido once lived on a cold-war tripwire, facing the Soviet Union, so the Ryukyu Islands are caught up in East Asia's 21st-century geopolitics.
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On Sunday, a fourth bomb injured two men in their early twenties after they triggered a tripwire detonator while walking on a residential street in southwest Austin.
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"'Tripwire,' our first single, is about that part inside all of us that knows better but hopelessly can't help ourselves," the band wrote in an e-mail.
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"This could eventually prove to be the tripwire for a direct confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran," said Helima Croft, head of global commodities strategy at RBC.
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Our presence there paints a target on the backs of U.S. forces for attacks from extremist elements, while also serving as a tripwire for war with Iran.
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The tripwire for Democrats among some white voters, she believes, is when they frame policies to expand opportunities for minorities as a kind of penance for whites.
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Because of the shutdown, more than 80 such certificates have expired across agencies such as NASA and the Department of Justice, according to research from cybersecurity company Tripwire.
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Special thanks to Jacob Holcomb and Rick Ramgattie of Independent Security Evaluators, and Craig Young of Tripwire for reviewing the technical parts of this guide and making suggestions.
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While about half of the nearly 4.5 million people on probation or parole will successfully complete their sentences, onerous supervision requirements can become a tripwire, resulting in incarceration.
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The tripwire is available on Tindie for $59.99 as a completely assembled plug-and-play device, or as a kit with all the pieces you can assemble yourself.
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What makes Sunday night's blast especially terrifying is that the device was left on the side of a residential road and triggered by a tripwire, police said Monday.
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In other words, rather than deliberately lay out a controversial new regional policy for the United States, Sanders seems to have simply stumbled somewhat accidentally across a diplomatic tripwire.
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The North regularly threatens to destroy the South and the United States, which maintains about 28,000 troops in South Korea as a tripwire to deter North Korean from attacking.
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The fourth bomb, a tripwire switch, victim-activated device detonated on the west side of Austin injured two white males and was viewed as a target of opportunity bomb.
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Essentially, having tripwire forces in place bullies your opponents into more obvious tactics, giving you the edge and allowing you to stop them in their easy-to-see tracks.
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If pushed into a corner, they will spring out in a vicious attack to protect that which they cannot lose — even if such an attack steps directly upon the tripwire.
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"The clock is ticking down to one of two choices: learning to live with the DPRK having nuclear weapons or triggering a tripwire to the worst-case scenario," it added.
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He is the author of Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World and co-author of The Korean Conundrum: America's Troubled Relations with North and South Korea.
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You'll learn how to build and program a motion detector with a laser tripwire, a long-distance Bluetooth listening device, a voice modulator, and even connect anonymously to the internet.
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Insisting on remaining in Iraq needlessly put U.S. forces in harm's way and risks serving as a tripwire for what would inevitably be a long and disastrous war with Iran.
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He also rigged a tripwire to explode on a public trail and sent two packages with bombs via FedEx, one of which exploded at a distribution center in San Antonio.
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The fourth Austin bombing in less than a month was detonated by a tripwire along a residential street, police said -- prompting fears that any pedestrian could become the next victim.
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On the night of the fourth bombing, one of the victims was riding a bike in the street and the other was on a sidewalk when they hit the tripwire.
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The Bike Mine starter kit, which includes the easy-to-attach rigging, titanium tripwire, and three blank shells, can be pre-ordered with a $70 donation to its $21,000+ Kickstarter campaign.
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Correction: Developer Tripwire Interactive released more information about their game after Killing Floor: Incursion's trailer went live, confirming that players aren't on rails, but free to move around the various levels.
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Instead, they carry the grim "tripwire" moniker, indicating that they are meant to slow down an invasion and amass sufficient casualties in the process to ensure a larger U.S. military response.
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A blast on Sunday night left two men injured after they apparently triggered a tripwire that set off an explosive device attached to a for-sale sign in a residential area.
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If you prefer a more destructive approach, you can lure enemies into explosive tripwire traps using the loud gunshot of a pistol or rifle against one unsuspecting foe to ensnare others.
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The main purpose of the U.S. troops is to act as a "tripwire" to ensure North Korea understands that going to war against South Korea would again draw in the United States.
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In practical terms, this could mean returning American missiles to the region, and extending the US presence beyond the "tripwire" troops that now rotate through, and that the Baltics must settle for.
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NATO has a tripwire force in each of the Baltic states: about a thousand or so troops to send a figurative flare should there be a Russian incursion, as happened in Ukraine.
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Experts say they served as a buffer and tripwire that kept Turkish forces out of the country, even though President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long wanted to kill Kurds along Turkey's southern border.
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Jonathan Eyal of RUSI, a London-based think-tank, reckons that there is "no escape" from tripwire deterrence, which worked for 40 years of the cold war when West Berlin was never defensible.
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For some of the youngest students at home on Wednesday, the episode was their first introduction to the Columbine shooting, and to its legacy of worry and tripwire responses to threats to schools.
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In a 2014 survey of I.T. professionals and employees who work remotely conducted by the security firm Tripwire, only 32 percent said they knew how to update their routers with the latest firmware.
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A majority of cybersecurity professionals think cybercriminals are interfering in the U.S. election, and agree with the 2016 Republican Party platform endorsing strike-backs against hackers, a new study from cybersecurity company Tripwire found.
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"Because of the Camarena case, even the mere allegation of a threat is the tripwire that unleashes DEA's fury," Jay Bergman, former regional director of the DEA's Andean office, told the Los Angeles Times.
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Assuming you follow the guidelines we've mentioned, built-in Android security is "as good or better than most third-party security tools," Craig Young, Principal Security Researcher at Tripwire VERT, told Gizmodo over email.
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"Whoever is doing this is just trying to elicit a fear or disrupt something," said Ryan Morris, founder of Tripwire Operations Group, a company that provides explosives training to law enforcement and military officials.
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Along with the spike strips and animal snares outside, there was a massive hot tub turned on its side, rigged with a tripwire to crush intruders like that boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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The bug, disclosed by researcher Craig Young at security firm Tripwire, works by exploiting a loophole in Google's systems to cross-check a list of nearby wireless networks with Google's precise geolocation look-up services.
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"There should be controls in place to segregate networks in such a way that these machines aren't connected with those that could infect them," said Tim Erlin, senior director, product management at cybersecurity company Tripwire.
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Yemen bears particularly close watching as Houthi missile attacks pose a direct risk to critical Saudi infrastructure, and the proxy war could prove to be the tripwire for a direct confrontation between Riyadh and Tehran.
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Alternatively, a ring of tripwire-like scouting telescopes around an observatory might scan for incoming bright satellites then, if one is seen, trigger a telescope's shutter to turn off before a sensitive image is corrupted.
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After navigating the traps outside, the cops blew open the front door to the house and crept in, accidentally nudging an innocent-looking wheelchair that was rigged to a fishing line tripwire and a shotgun shell.
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After revisiting old memories with Karen, I found myself imagining all the ways that a downed plane, an errant bullet, a hidden tripwire or even Karen's conversation with her sister might have rewritten our stories' endings.
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Although Ms Thornberry supported the decision to send soldiers to Estonia as a "tripwire" force to deter its neighbour Russia, she has pointedly refused to say whether the Baltic states should have joined the transatlantic alliance.
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Many of the traps Kevin sets up for the "villains" of the story are harmless and of the sort you might expect from a kid his age—the hot wheels on the floor, a tripwire, etc.
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The fourth explosion, on Sunday evening, was the result of a tripwire bomb (a sort of booby-trap), which had been planted on the side of the road in a quiet, residential neighborhood in southwest Austin.
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But developer Tripwire points out that unlike many Vive shooters, Incursion lets you teleport through a world instead of standing in one place, and says it's more story-driven than some more arcade-y VR titles.
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In such a deal, America would, without question, be safe from North Korean missile attacks, but South Korea would no longer have the tripwire of U.S. troops to hold back conventional pressure from Beijing or Pyongyang.
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By traveling frequently to China, meeting with officials and speaking in language often used by party cadres, Mr. Kalanick helped the company avoid the regulatory tripwire that has led many companies to stumble in the market.
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Instead of being left at the home of a victim, it was placed near the street and connected to a tripwire that was triggered by two men in their 20s, who have not been publicly named.
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The United States still retains antipersonnel Claymore mines, which were designed in the late 1950s, and can be rigged to explode through a booby trap like a tripwire, or can be made to detonate upon command.
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The company said it was investigating all aspects of the attack, including how it occurred, whether unencrypted payment data was accessed or why a security tripwire wasn't activated when the thefts began in 2014, among other details.
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When multiple stress fractures already exist—the result of decades of mediocre leadership—all that's required is a tripwire The suffering inflicted by self-serving and weak leadership along these three axes is immense and world-wide.
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The secretary-general believes that multinational alliances, far from entangling great powers in enraging, Lilliputian constraints, offer a thrifty form of deterrence, precisely because a small international force serves as a tripwire for action by many countries.
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IO adds another layer states must work through before they result to kinetic measures and, if combined with unconventional warfare instead of conventional forces on a tripwire footing, can limit the body count if things heat up.
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"The use of a tripwire is far less discriminating than leaving parcel bombs at residences and suggests that (Sunday's) victims were not specifically targeted," the global think tank Stratfor said in one of its Threat Lens reports.
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But in this case, I'm using the term tripwire a bit more broadly to mean US troops that would be caught up in the fighting, even if they aren't necessarily physically located right on the DMZ itself.
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For the 28,500 American troops in South Korea, the demilitarised zone at the border with North Korea is the world's last cold-war tripwire: one move across it by Kim Jong Un's forces would meet with instant retribution.
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That is to say that the current US military force in South Korea isn't intended to really stop the whole of the North Korean military all by their lonesome, but rather to function as a tripwire of sorts.
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Craig Young , a researcher at Tripwire, explained in a blog post today (June 18) that a technique called DNS rebinding lets a malicious website, or even a malicious ad, get access to devices on a user&aposs home network.
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Essentially a tripwire consisting of only about 215,0003 troops, these multinational units are meant to send a message to Moscow that if it tries anything against a NATO member in the east, it will quickly face the whole alliance.
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The trick was to see if they could maintain a stable orientation with enough precision to perform laser interferometry, a method of bouncing lasers between locations to create a tripwire tuned to the spectral signatures of passing gravitational waves.
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While the market has tried to come to terms with somewhat higher rates, $70 oil, a firmer U.S. dollar and a Fed determined to tighten policy steadily, any of these issues could cross a tripwire of concern before too long.
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The fourth device on Sunday appeared to have been triggered by a tripwire set up along a quiet southwest Austin street, igniting a shrapnel-laced explosive that had been partly obscured by a home-for-sale sign, officials and neighbors said.
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"While Tripwire can't catch every data breach, it essentially has no false positives—everything it detects definitely corresponds to a data breach," Joe DeBlasio, a Ph.D student of Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD and an author on the research paper, told Gizmodo.
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Maybe, just maybe, it would be enough to stop the rot, so that when a fool tips that first domino or strikes the tripwire they hurt no one but themselves, and we can hope that the injury is only a slight one.
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Chivalry 2, for example, is coming from a partnership between Killing Floor developer Tripwire Interactive and Torn Banner Studios, and so it's a "safe bet" for showing off and would probably do well on the main stage in any other press event.
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Authorities are likely looking at surveillance video from neighbors' yards that may have captured any vehicles or people going to and from the area, said Ryan J. Morris, founder of Tripwire Operations Group, a company that provides explosives training to law enforcement.
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Furthermore, they are armed to the teeth with American military hardware and continue to purchase more, but the technical underbelly of the military-industrial complex can train Gulf Arab forces to fight for themselves with fewer U.S. troops serving as a tripwire.
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The fact that the bomb was set off by a tripwire has led police to believe that the perpetrator(s) had "a higher level of sophistication, a higher level of skill" than they had initially believed, said Brian Manley, the interim Austin police chief.
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Much like the Earth-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which announced the first direct detection of a gravitational wave in history in 2016, LISA will create an optical tripwire over vast distances in order to capture the subtle distortion of passing waves.
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Per the Washington Post, the bombing spree began on March 2nd and started with explosives being left on people's doorsteps in east Austin; it has since involved a sophisticated tripwire-enabled bomb on a residential street and an attempt to mail explosives through a delivery company.
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The breach of the Democratic National Committee's computer network and subsequent leaks of sensitive information so close to the U.S. election is the most high-profile way in which cybercriminals are trying to manipulate the election, wrote Tripwire director of IT security and risk strategy Tim Erlin.
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Officials said Mr. Conditt planted one bomb in the upscale Travis Country neighborhood of Austin on Sunday, and tied the bomb's tripwire to a "Caution: Children at Play" sign — which he himself put next to the sidewalk and bought, along with four others, at Home Depot.
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It was triggered by a nearly invisible tripwire, suggesting a "higher level of sophistication" than agents saw in three package bombs previously left on doorsteps, according to Fred Milanowski, the agent in charge of the Houston division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Trump "clearly has some challenges because of the distractions and some of the decrease in his popularity, but keep in mind this is equally important to Congress and they can pass this on their own, assuming they don't hit a tripwire of his, and he'll sign it," he said.
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Any measurable amount of methane detected by Curiosity would be a tripwire for Mars researchers, since the gas would likely have to have been produced recently by an organism if the reading is accurate, because otherwise it would've naturally broken down in a relatively short timespan into its component parts.
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Numbering around 150 (out of a total contingent of 1,000 in eastern Syria) the troops near the border were largely a tripwire to prevent a long-threatened invasion by Turkey, which views the Syrian Kurdish militia in control of the region (the People's Protection Units, or YPG) as a terrorist group.
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Hawks in the U.S. administration may also be concerned that Trump, who often complained during his election campaign about American military burdens overseas, would ultimately agree to a timetable for denuclearization by North Korea in exchange for withdrawing American troops from South Korea — removing a military tripwire to deter aggression by the North.
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The Austin police chief, Brian Manley, told reporters early Monday that it was "very possible" that the explosion "was activated by someone either handling, kicking or coming in contact with a tripwire that activated the device," a manner far different from the first three explosions, which were triggered by the handling of packages.
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" Esper also pushed back against host Chris WallaceChristopher (Chris) WallaceMulvaney faces uncertain future after public gaffes Poll: 14 percent of GOP voters say Trump should be impeached The Hill's 12:30 Report — Presented by Nareit — Buttigieg closes in on Biden, Warren in Iowa MORE's characterization of U.S. troops at the border as a "tripwire.
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In recent years the alliance has deployed four battlegroups (up to 1,400 troops each) to Poland and the Baltic states as tripwire forces; created a rapid-response brigade (about 5,000-strong) that can mobilise within two days; and committed to having 30 battalions, 30 warships and 30 air squadrons ready to fight at 30 days' notice.
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The 35,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, while a potent force, are meant to serve as what military planners refer to as a "tripwire", a first line of defense which if engaged would trigger the intervention of American forces from Japan, Guam, Saipan, Hawaii and the continental U.S. Simply put, there has been no buildup of extra U.S. military assets in the region over the past month.
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There's no point in having our politics be hostage to these kind of tripwire effects, where you say something that seems politically invidious, merely talking about the data as they are — unless every population of human beings has exactly the same mean and the same variance for every trait we care about, we are guaranteed to be blindsided by these differences that seem important to people who care about differences among groups.
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The Norwegian Polar Institute has no shortage of warnings about polar bears and urges visitors to Svalbard -- an island cluster in the Arctic Ocean, some 1,200 miles north of continental Norway -- to arm themselves: "Due to the risk of meeting polar bears visitors traveling in Svalbard must always have firearms and protection devices at hand, such as a big-game rifle and ammunition for self-defense, flare gun or an emergency signal flare pen for driving off polar bears and tripwire with flares for camping," its online cruise handbook states.
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