Re: Washington on the verge of being nuked?
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
David Honig <honig@otc.net> writes:
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?
Yes, psyops (no ch) - the most venerable field of information warfare.
That doesn't work when you have sufficient health-orgs and telecomm to get the word out that the water's ok.
By the same reasoning, a bomb threat won't get a building evacuated if the authorities can check whether the bomb is there... A psychopath like Guy Polis could just call a TV station and claim that he put some poison in the water supply which would take a few days to test for.
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.
NYC is one of the few major cities where the tap water is good enough to drink and actually tastes good.
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...
One could use brute force and just blow up enough redundant towers... Or short them with a kite. :-)
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.
NYC has pretty good public transporation... I don't think a terrorist can do a lot by screwing up the traffic. I recall that there was a bunch of bomb threates at Salomon Brothers last year, right after Guy Polis was fired from his contractor job. Do you suppose the psychotic pedophile did it? --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
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