[116976] in Cypherpunks
Re: Project: Hardening Crypto Against Big Brother's "Black
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Tue Aug 24 19:04:01 1999
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There are already laws about schemes of this sort. People with summer
lake cottages tend to have problems with locals who can't stand the
temptation of unoccupied residences. To deal with the frustration of
persistent break-ins some absentee owners resort to 'Rube Goldberg'
trigger devices to punish the scofflaws. Much to their consternation,
though, they tend to lose civil (and even criminal) cases to the
failed perpetrator who gets injured (or killed and his dependents
sue).
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I was wondering though--what if one were to use "less that
lethal" means? like a setup that if you pulled the case off your
machine, the room gets flooded with nitros oxide so the "agent"
passes out--hopefully long enough for you to get home, find him
passed out, rough him up, and call the police and Newspapers...
You'd also have to do something about locking him IN the room
until the gas took effect.
--
"To sum up: The entire structure of antitrust statutes in this
country is a jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a
product: (a) of a gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of
rather naïve, and certainly unrealistic, economic theories." Alan
Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html
