Re: Destroying government computers
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said yesterday he favors developing new technology to remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music from the Internet.
Well, even if they COULD develope such a technology, wouldn't it only work for about a day or two before a patch was made to block it? Sounds awfully Dilbert-like. Methinks Mr Hatch is not a very bright man.
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.
Why wait? And of course, such an act would be our patriotic duty, because if we didn't, then The Terrorists certainly would when we were least prepared for it. -TD
From: Tim May <timcmay@got.net> To: cypherpunks@lne.com Subject: Destroying government computers Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:16:57 -0700
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/business/ news_1b18hatch.html
June 18, 2003, WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary
said yesterday he favors developing new technology to remotely destroy
Committee 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" 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
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I think Herr Hatch has a wonderful idea.... no really, think about it, all of a sudden people will start THINKING about the security implications of the garbage scumware they run on their machines and they'll have to install things like firewalls and harderned operating systems. They'll also move out of Microsoft's paper-bag security of windblows in droves. Just to be able to run P2P clients and still remain secure, Linux and *BSD's will become even more popular. Even better think how wonderful the headline will be when some dork in the army is running a P2P client on his work machine and the RIAA destroys it. Why that would be destroying and hacking into .mil property! A treasonous terrorist act against the government! So RIAA will be in deep shit. If some hospital drone does the same and RIAA kills the machine, that's hacking and damaging a computer vital to life support... The effects of such a law aren't all that bad. RIAA gets to die a nice horrible death, as does Microsoft. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD. \|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
Well, even if they COULD develope such a technology, wouldn't it only work for about a day or two before a patch was made to block it? Sounds awfully Dilbert-like. Methinks Mr Hatch is not a very bright man.
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