We must not wait while dangers gather. They are either with us
on computer security, or they are with the terrorists. We know
they have these weapons for mass communications destruction and
disruption and they have used them before. Preemptive actions
are insufficient. Preventive actions are a right of self-
defense. Isn't that the current world view legitimized by the US
government? We don't sit still when a would-be attacker moves
toward the cockpit, and there is no need to sit still waiting
for our BIOS to be overwritten with nulls. Taking away offensive
capabilities when potential attackers enter the concourse or
trespass upon the chattel of our computers seems only reasonable
and fully supportive of national security and public policy.
Since we can't know whether it is our friends and heroic
protectors, or terrorists, who are trying to destroy our
communications, kill all the dangerous, evil machines that
connect and let God sort them out.
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 01:07:49 -0400, you wrote:
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
Committee
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 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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