[116986] in Cypherpunks
Re: Project: Hardening Crypto Against Big Brother's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Haggerty)
Tue Aug 24 20:36:17 1999
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 17:21:24 -0700
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From: "John Haggerty" <jhaggert@streetforce.com>
To: petro@suba.com, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: "John Haggerty" <jhaggert@streetforce.com>
What a stack of crates with phony "evidence" to keep him busy. Then have the
door swing shut automatically.
>Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:08:28 -0700
>To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
>From: Petro <petro@suba.com>
>
>
>____
>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).
>_____
>
> 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
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