[82997] in Cypherpunks
Re: Recreational pharmaceuticals by genetic engineering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Broiles)
Thu Jul 10 16:47:34 1997
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 13:05:36 -0700
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
In-Reply-To: <v03102800afead774beaf@[207.167.93.63]>
Reply-To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
At 11:24 AM 7/10/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>BTW, this was a topic of conversation several years ago in the nanotech
>discussion group I was in: home chemistry with instructions dowloaded from
>the Net. Sort of a "Click here to download manufacturing instructions for
>LSD."
>[...]
>Such "dangerous knowledge" will join bombmaking instructions in being added
>to Fineswine's law. Downloading of instructuctions for NC machine tools,
>too, if the instructions are for zip guns and even real guns.
And these technological developments will exacerbate the conflict between
the First Amendment and behavioral regulation which the Bernstein case has
already highlighted. "Informational liberty" and "behavioral liberty" are
becoming indistinguishable.
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