At 06:34 PM 2/9/98 EST, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
One can "disrupt" the water supply by just making a credible assertion that it's been poisoned - but it won't kill nearly as many people as actual poison (or virus/bacteria).
Psychops? That doesn't work when you have sufficient health-orgs and telecomm to get the word out that the water's ok. Actually, a lot of people drink bottled water here :-) but the 10 million kilos of shit excreted by LA every day would build up pretty fast. Electric power is probably as vunerable as waterways, despite conscious efforts to make the grid redundant. Of course both are controlled by computers, as uncle sam is realizing. In LA, all it takes to create a looting riot is to cut electricity to the city's alarm systems... .... Major freeway intersections are closed down 2-3 times a year in LA due to bomb threats, which are usually just threats -no bombs are found. You can snarl the roads very easily at the right time of day, since the roads' bandwidth is already exceeded and congestion persists after the clog is removed. At *least* once a month a major piece of freeway is shut down for an hour or so for "police activity", one hears on traffic reports, often around rush hour. Crypto relevance: traffic signals can be controlled by modem, a Civ-E friend tells me. They are built to be fail-safe (blinking red), but ever seen rush hour commuters deal with all blinking red? Even tanks can't get through a gridlocked city (a factor in Korean invasion planning). ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig@otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Lewinsky for President '2012