Re: Threat Model: Biowar
Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net> writes:
Anonymous wrote:
Highly contagious airborne diseases are known to exist. Germ warfare laboratories are also known to exist. The owners of these labs will do anything to get and keep power. The Internet and crypto-anarchy threatens those who currently have power. How will they respond? One response would be a biowarfare attack on the civilian population.
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Biowar attacks (unless giant-scale, intended to kill millions) mainly affect the already-sick, very old, and very weak members of the population. This is, of course, a favored plan for fascist persons such as the woman who founded Planned Parenthood, George Bush, the Harrimans, Shockley, etc., but nearly useless to target dissidents and "crypto anarchists".
If medicare or social security get too expensive, an epidemic targeting the elderly would be good for the economy. I did a little work with (biological) viruses under the late Lou Auslander and the technology available 12 years ago was pretty amazing. I'm sure they can do more now. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net> writes:
Biowar attacks (unless giant-scale, intended to kill millions) mainly affect the already-sick, very old, and very weak members of the population. This is, of course, a favored plan for fascist persons such as the woman who founded Planned Parenthood, George Bush, the Harrimans, Shockley, etc., but nearly useless to target dissidents and "crypto anarchists".
If medicare or social security get too expensive, an epidemic targeting the elderly would be good for the economy. I did a little work with (biological) viruses under the late Lou Auslander and the technology available 12 years ago was pretty amazing. I'm sure they can do more now.
The analogies from bio-viruses to computer equivalents is interesting in a crypto-anarchic context. Be nice to hear more on this.
Dale Thorn wrote:
The analogies from bio-viruses to computer equivalents is interesting in a crypto-anarchic context. Be nice to hear more on this.
DNA as the original cryptographer? Dr. Virus KOTC(reation) as the original code-breaker/shit-disturber? John Gilmore as the original host/primordal-swamp for a variety of crypto-anarchic life-forms? (I can see arguments brewing here as to who plays the 'Slime' in this Crypto-Genetic-Genesis.) -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html
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