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June 18, 2003, WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary
said yesterday he favors developing new technology to remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music from the Internet.
"If that's the only way, then I'm all for destroying their machines. If you have a few hundred thousand of those, I think people would realize"
Committee the
seriousness of their actions, he said.
If Orrin Hatch proposes such a thing, we can propose technologies which identify those from .gov or .mil or other Congress/Gov't. domains and send lethal viruses and suchlike back to them to destroy their machines if they illegally connect to our machines. (A simple warning that government stooges, lawyers, judges, clerks, and any GS-xx employees are not allowed to connect should suffice. After that, if they connect, fuck their machines dead.) --Tim May "Ben Franklin warned us that those who would trade liberty for a little bit of temporary security deserve neither. This is the path we are now racing down, with American flags fluttering."-- Tim May, on events following 9/11/2001
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:16:57PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
If Orrin Hatch proposes such a thing, we can propose technologies which identify those from .gov or .mil or other Congress/Gov't. domains and send lethal viruses and suchlike back to them to destroy their machines if they illegally connect to our machines.
I've said this before, but I'll say it again: Spooks don't get AOL CDs too? If you were going to go about blowing up someone's computer, would you *really* do it in a traceable way? Wouldn't IP spoofing and throwaway connections just be SOP at that point? Do you expect a government so obviously disinterested in its citizens' privacy to openly disclose their source IP address? C'mon. Or do you just think that they'll be stupid enough not to know to bother? Certainly, your first retaliation would get their attention, and they have plenty of clout to hire smart people to deal with this "correctly". - -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (NetBSD) iD8DBQE+8dXp9ehacAz5CRoRAsN/AJ9k4qR3SWwrmKqfQXKsiRp2TOJJVACghJao s0JIR1ud+zuSeUqFN8LbFZ0= =ztKl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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