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Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Mon Mar 18 19:31:18 2013
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:31:03 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 3/18/13, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
[snip]
> In the next 3 years, it will become possible to build an autonomously
> navigating aircraft that can a) cross the Atlantic and b) carry a
> nuclear weapon.
Not only is it already possible to build a human manually navigated aircraft
that can do both (a), and (b), they already exist, and computer
autonomy isn't necessary or useful, to hit a single big target; now
computer autonomous aircraft that can do only (a) could be just as
useful as decoys.
Nuclear weapons are rare, expensive, and the existing ones are
(hopefully) well-secured, due to their extremely high value. I
would be more concerned about the possibility of a large swarm -- of
half a million solar powered drones of the approximate size of a
large eagle capable of crossing the oceans and releasing a spray of
bio agents over very large distances.
> -- jra
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-JH
