[117063] in Cypherpunks
Re: Project: Hardening Crypto Against Big Brother's "Black
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Wed Aug 25 20:05:01 1999
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:48:35 -0700
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From: Petro <petro@suba.com>
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>At 02:08 PM 8/24/99 -0700, Petro wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
>I think I posted something about this a week or so ago. "Indescriminate
>weapons" are illegal, but with all the recent automated video
>identification technology coming on tap its quite possible that an
>automated threat assessment system could be created that had sufficient
>descrimination to use force (even lethal force in the case of "hot
>entries," especiall warrentless ninja jobs) and pass judicial muster.
But it's not a "weapon" in that it is intended to cause harm,
it simply incapacitates--in a fairly gentle way--the agent.
--
"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
